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What does it mean to be white?


Anastasia13

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Denying that 'race' is anything more than a social construct is just basic biology. There's no such thing as 'race' among human beings.

The creation of 'race' as something determined by skin tone IS the social construction.


Perhaps then you should have taken advanced biology where they teach you about something called "genes".
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Perhaps then you should have taken advanced biology where they teach you about something called "genes".

 

 

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the point that race is a social construction is that socially constructed "race" revolves around skin tones... as one of my favorite anthropology professors always liked to point out, it'd be much more poignant to divide genetic races along the lines of those who are genetically prone to lactose intolerance than skin tones.  the point is it's arbitrary what particular genetic trait becomes a "race"--biology doesn't define that.  genes pass down a whole bunch of traits, but there's nothing in genetics that defines a distinction between "races"

 

attempts to distinguish "races" biologically around the historic lines we tend to draw them in have historically been steeped in racism and bad science... a more accurate understanding of genetics has mostly put a stop to such ridiculous ideas.

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