Scientists Say Race is Not A Scientific Concept

Scientific or not, if you are waiting for a subway train to arrive, and you see several young gentlemen (one of each of the four principal ethnicities in this country), which one will you be the most wary of, lest he decide to push you off the platform?
 
Scientific or not, if you are waiting for a subway train to arrive, and you see several young gentlemen (one of each of the four principal ethnicities in this country), which one will you be the most wary of, lest he decide to push you off the platform?
That's a racist remark, but still needs to be acknowledged with a comment as to why it could 'sometimes be true.
White America created it's race problems by not coming to accept all people of different skin colours, as equals.

And so there is 'no' truth to the statement in most other countries.
 
Scientific or not, if you are waiting for a subway train to arrive, and you see several young gentlemen (one of each of the four principal ethnicities in this country), which one will you be the most wary of, lest he decide to push you off the platform?
Thanks for showing that race is a cultural concept. If you're in Chicago and you see a well-dressed, White man and a well-dressed, Black man, do you assume the White man is a doctor and the Black man is a pimp? Would your assumptions be the same if you were in Africa?
 
That's a racist remark, but still needs to be acknowledged with a comment as to why it could 'sometimes be true.
White America created it's race problems by not coming to accept all people of different skin colours, as equals.

And so there is 'no' truth to the statement in most other countries.

“There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps... then turn around and see somebody white and feel relieved.”​


― Jesse Jackson
 
The concept of race fits in to some degree with the traditional scientific study of taxonomy which classifies all plants and animals according to certain characteristics. We are of the primate family, which all share certain traits. We are in the genus Homo which share more specific traits and in species sapiens which share quite specific traits and form a stable breeding population.

When discussing plants and animals, the dictates of binomial nomenclature used in taxonomy often divide creatures even further to the level of sub species which represents a stable localized population within a species that shares a slight trait different than other members of the species -- white flowers when the species usually has yellow, for instance -- but is not a distinct species, merely a slight variation.

With Humans, what we refer to as Asian, White or Black might be considered subspecies (and no, sub does not mean subordinate, here) but that does not mean much beyond the acknowledgement of certain phenotypical traits. Imbuing these phenotypical traits with OTHER qualities is based upon cultural determinations, not scientific.
 
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Scientific or not, if you are waiting for a subway train to arrive, and you see several young gentlemen (one of each of the four principal ethnicities in this country), which one will you be the most wary of, lest he decide to push you off the platform?
That is your personal fear, not science.
 
The concept of race fits in to some degree with the traditional scientific study of taxonomy which classifies all plants and animals according to certain characteristics. We are of the primate family, which all share certain traits. We are in the genus Homo which share more specific traits and in species sapiens which share quite specific traits and form a stable breeding population.

When discussing plants and animals, the dictates of binomial nomenclature used in taxonomy often divide creatures even further to the level of sub species which represents a stable localized population within a species that shares a slight trait different than other members of the species -- white flowers when the species usually has yellow, for instance -- but is not a distinct species, merely a slight variation.

With Humans, what we refer to as Asian, White or Black might be considered subspecies (and no, sub does not mean subordinate, here) but that does not mean much beyond the acknowledgement of certain phenotypical traits. Imbuing these phenotypical traits with OTHER qualities is based upon cultural determinations, not scientific.
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With Humans, what we refer to as Asian, White or Black might be considered subspecies (and no, sub does not mean subordinate, here) but that does not mean much beyond the acknowledgement of certain phenotypical traits. Imbuing these phenotypical traits with OTHER qualities is based upon cultural determinations, not scientific.

Actually, race or breed is a taxon below subspecies.

All living humans are of the subspecies Homo Sapiens SapiensHomo being the genus, the first Sapiens being the species, and the second Sapiens being the subspecies.

Among all the extinct members of the Homo genus, its a matter of considerable dispute and mystery as to which were subspecies under Homo Sapiens, and which were separate species under Homo.

But anyway, race is a taxon below all of that.
 

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