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Not necessarily or directly, no. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(human_categorization) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(human_categorization)
by dwb 6y ago
Not necessarily or directly, no.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(human_categorization) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(human_categorization)
- blueflow 6y agoAh, i didn't realize people in the anglosphere use it as a social category now. In German language, dog breeds are called with the same word that can also be used on humans ("Hunderasse", "Rasse"), so i always understood it as a biological/taxonomical thing.
- disposekinetics 6y agoJust like gender it used to mean that, but now we have to pretend it has always meant something else.
- dwb 6y agoI have never heard of anyone claiming that modern definitions of these terms should be literally projected back into the past - only that we can analyse the past with current thought on these matters, which seems completely reasonable to me.