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Your race could be a factor in a medical diagnosis. Whereas your caste is completely irrelevant > According to geneticist David Reich, "while race may be a soc
by _thisdot 3y ago
Your race could be a factor in a medical diagnosis. Whereas your caste is completely irrelevant
> According to geneticist David Reich, "while race may be a social construct, differences in genetic ancestry that happen to correlate to many of today's racial constructs are real."
- lotsofpulp 3y agoEvery single question regarding race that I have come across lumps over half the world’s population into one race, “Asian”.
- _thisdot 3y agoTrue that around 60% of the world population lives in Asia. I’d say “Asian” is more a geographic classification rather than race. Asia is huge and contains multiple races within. Even smaller continents like North America or even Australia/Oceania has multiple races within them
- lotsofpulp 3y agoSo as the word “race” is applied in the US, race is not very correlated with genetic ancestry.
- _thisdot 3y agoHow so? Sorry I’m not as aware of race or racism as much I am of caste and casteism.
- lotsofpulp 3y agoIn the US, based on someone’s answer to a question on which race they belong to, you would not have very good odds on determining their genetic ancestry.
- mrcartmeneses 3y agoYou are confusing race with ethnicity. Race is a made up thing, a construct with no basis in reality