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 1 year ago
There are no races in the first place.
Bread@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 1 year ago
it is easily understood
Only by racists.
u202307011927@feddit.de 1 year ago
Life is not a race
Eavolution@kbin.social 1 year ago
I mean there are general genetic differences due to where people are from. Is that not what a race is?
Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works 1 year 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
Eavolution@kbin.social 1 year 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?
relevants@feddit.de 1 year ago
Some people use “race” to mean that, but the word you’d be looking for is ethnicity.
Naich@kbin.social 1 year ago
There's genetic differences between you and everyone else in your family. Are you a different race to them?
Eavolution@kbin.social 1 year 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.
Naich@kbin.social 1 year 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.
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 1 year 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.