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Not disagreeing per se, but I think we often underestimate how much of our definition of 'race' is based on context, separate from our genes, such as: - where
by mercer 8y ago
Not disagreeing per se, but I think we often underestimate how much of our definition of 'race' is based on context, separate from our genes, such as:
- where we see a person
- who this person is with
- what clothes the person wears
- what a person smells like
- body language
- spoken language
- the manner in which they speak (loud, soft, etc.)
- the way they walk
- all sorts of other cultural markers (like stance, eye contact, etc.)
I suspect that all these contextual, largely non-biological factors play a huge role in how we decide a person's race. Possibly so much so that the biological markers we do have available are mostly useless.
Please correct me if I'm wrong though; I am far from an expert in this area!