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Humans aren't divided into races.

• close04 8y ago
  Of course we do: car races, bike races, but also human races yes. You may be confusing race and (sub)species.
  • jobigoud 8y ago
    > You may be confusing race and (sub)species There is a stigma with the word race and in many places (i.e. Europe) we learn that there is only one Human race, and only one Human species, as opposed to several "ethnic groups". Although the difference between race and ethnic group is vague. I've always wondered if it was just a taboo or not.
    • close04 8y ago
      Race is indeed an ambiguous term in general, as there are overlaps. But I have to wonder whether it's the stigma associated to the word especially post WW2 and Nazi eugenics that made some anthropologists reconsider and say "most differences are cultural". There are obvious aesthetic (not functional) differences between populations. These are enough to distinguish between races within other species so I'm having a hard time finding an authoritative explanation for why it would be different for humans. I find no challenge in treating people as equals without the need to think they are the same race so such an argument based on sociology is not as convincing as a biological one.
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  • Koshkin 8y ago
    > car races, bike races, but also human races That's what using a human language does to you. Other species do not have such issues, as they do not muck up their thought process with words.