As a German (who also lived in Sweden, Australia, NZ) I always cringe when I hear how Americans (from both sides of the political spectrum) use the the term rac

As a German (who also lived in Sweden, Australia, NZ) I always cringe when I hear how Americans (from both sides of the political spectrum) use the the term race as something that actually has some sort of biological/genetic basis. There is absolutely no scientific basis for the racial categories used today. Apart from the fact that the genetic differences between all humans are tiny compared to different races in animals (which is I guess where the term comes from), there is also the fact that many ethnicities which are lumped under a common race differ more from each other than from many other "categories", e.g. Africa has more genetic diversity than all other continents combined. Therefore one "black" person might differ significantly more from another "black" than from a Caucasian or Asian person. I mean the irony that there is the "racial" category of "African-American". I think this is also not just semantics. The use of the term race associates much larger differences than there actually are, which makes it easier to justify discrimination/hate.