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Originally Posted by Winsor_Pilates
There is no such thing a biological race. Where do you guys come up with this junk?
Race is only real in that people like some in this thread treat it as real and the consequences of that become real.
If race is biologicaly definable catagories, What race is Tiger Woods? how many races are there? and what race are most South Americans?
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Race is not only real because people treat it that way. That is like saying that flowers are only scented differently because people treat them that way. Or that tabbies and persians are only different because people treat them that way.
There are many 'racial' categories bandied around that are formed on the basis of cultural, national or religious backgrounds and which have little to do with any sort of properly racial categorization. It's also not so simple as dividing folk up into whites, blacks, asians, etc. Africa has something like 6 distinct black indigenous races, one of which is the pygmies.
Granted these categories are functional catgories useful for genealogical purposes, and there is crossover between races (which I'm sure would be increasing in modern days of travel). Nonetheless, the differences do not exist because we observe them. The differences are there for us to observe. The distinctions may strike you as arbitrary, but they are justifiable.
I don't know why this is such an issue. Would you not expect people who have lived on separate parts of the planet for many many thousands of years to have developed differences?