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Originally Posted by #-3
Race is probably less simplistic than gender. While there can be hormonal and emotional differences causing people to feel out of place, for 99.99% of us there is something (or nothing) hanging there that is a yes or no answer.
Race on the other hand is largely based on anecdotal evidence that hasn't been vary easy to substantiate, and appearances vary greatly in as little as 2 or 3 generations making them largely subjective. For example within my family I have heard claims that somewhere in the range of 6-8 generations ago there was some Inuit in the line, But my parents and I are all as white as white can be.
It has gotten allot easier to substantiate race in recent years, but all that has shown us is it is just as complicated as we thought, most of us are well under 50% of one distinguishable group, and many of us are up to 4% a completely different species. While science has given yet another definitive answer to 99% of us about gender and left a vary vary small group in a real scientific grey area.
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This is why I don't like the concept of race, to me it implies another species, human or chimp. What is called race is really a geo spacial cultural thing to me and a gross over simplification into white, black, brown, yellow. Really feels like just trying to draw lines in the sand over colours, but well I guess that's part of racism for yeh.