Comment on would would the average skin tone and facial features after 300 years?

NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Eavolution@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I mean there are general genetic differences due to where people are from. Is that not what a race is?

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  • Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The whole race theory has been debunked over a century ago. You also have genetic difference in foot shape, blood type and many more, and a race system build on that would be as wrong as one based on skin colour

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    • Eavolution@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh I'm not particularly informed on any of this because I don't really care tbh, but I though race was where you (and your ancestors) are from as opposed to skin colour?

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      • relevants@feddit.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Some people use “race” to mean that, but the word you’d be looking for is ethnicity.

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  • Naich@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There's genetic differences between you and everyone else in your family. Are you a different race to them?

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    • Eavolution@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No, that's why I said general. For example people from Europe tend to have lighter skin, Scandinavian people tend to have lighter hair, African people tend to have coarser hair.

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      • Naich@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You are just picking an arbitrary set of characteristics and calling it "race". Nature has no concept of race because we are all genetically different and there is no line that one crosses from being one race to another. Race is purely a human construct, and a very unhelpful one, as it is just another way to divide us.

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  • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You have to ask biology, not politicians. That’s the major change!

    Biology’s answer is simple, and it hasn’t changed during the last 50 years or so.

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• Bread@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The only reason I refer to it that way is because it is easily understood and is how a lot of paperwork refers to it. In my opinion, it makes it sound like we we are a completely different alien species.

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  • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    it is easily understood

    Only by racists.

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• u202307011927@feddit.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Life is not a race

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