Is race a socially constructed idea or a biological fact?

[Samson]

negroes arent black because of their skin colour.

Well, you've proven it.



Being human means having the intellect to ignore your own stupidity.

so you finally realize the phenotype skin colour of a race is only an expression of the underlying continental genetic cluster rather than the cause?

No need to emphasise your point with vocabulary.....but if it makes you feel better, go right ahead.

 

[manifold]

There is a great degree of incongruity in how the term 'race' is understood. As one who values familiarity with various understandings of things, I can confidently tell you the answer is both.

 

[xsited1]

Nobody cares about Asians.

With the highest average IQ of the major races, the Mongoloids are doing fine.

 

[JBeukema]

There is a great degree of incongruity in how the term 'race' is understood. As one who values familiarity with various understandings of things, I can confidently tell you the answer is both.

 

[percysunshine]

'Race' is an imaginary construct of humans too old to play video games and too bored to do something useful with their lives.

Which catagory do you fit into?

Human.

Barak Obama has more in common with George Bush than a Lhasa Apsa has in common with a German Shepherd.

 

[Uncensored2008]

I find this question very interesting and am wondering what kind of opinions people hold regarding this question. So, please share your opinions

It ain't biological - that is demonstrable.

 

[IanC]

I find this question very interesting and am wondering what kind of opinions people hold regarding this question. So, please share your opinions

It ain't biological - that is demonstrable.

really? demonstate it for us.

 

[signelect]

Your are right it has been thoroughly proven, we don't have a consensus.

 

[percysunshine]

Your are right it has been thoroughly proven, we don't have a consensus.

There is a secret encrypted unspoken consensus in an undisclosed location on this message board.

Your job is to find it.

 

[uscitizen]

We Beta Triangulans are an extreme racial minorty here on earth.

 

[rdean]

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Ask a Republican scientist.

 

[editec]

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I think it's a little of both.

For example, in the 19th century, it was common for the English to call themselves the Anglo Saxon RACE. That's rather silly given the fact the English are probably the most ethnically diverse people in Europe.

That preposterous psuedo-science of that century was nothing more but ETHNOcentric poppycock.

But there are sound scientific reasons, I think, to note that humankind manfiests having slight differences between peoples whose origins (in prehistoric antiquity) are slightly different.

Some of us like to make a much bigger deal of those different characteristics than they really merit, of course.