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I mean the categories that have been selected, are absolutely ridiculous. There isn't just one "black", as much as there is one "white". Imagine the differences
by sgt 2y ago
I mean the categories that have been selected, are absolutely ridiculous. There isn't just one "black", as much as there is one "white". Imagine the differences in two white races at their most extremes: iranians and finns. Or slavs. Or irish. And blacks - are Khoisan black? If they are, they are extremely different from Nigerians, which again is an extremely ethnically diverse country. This is why I seriously dislike the categories selected by politicians and administrators.
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- dotancohen 2y ago> I mean the categories that have been selected, are absolutely ridiculous. There isn't just one "black", as much as there is one "white". Alright, so American popular conception of race is incorrect, not the concept of race as a whole. In my country we do not refer to black and white, we use the names that each racial group calls themselves (Beduin, Arab, Ethiopian, Moroccan, etc).
- jampekka 2y agoI think OP's point is that it's arbitrary and context dependent where the line between races is drawn. It also includes non-genetic cultural traits, as in your example. Should a different eye color detemine a race demarcation? Is e.g. religion a factor in detemining a race? The examples you listed are probably better described as ethnic groups, which are not genetically detemined, not necessarily mutually exclusive and quite vaguely defined.
- dotancohen 2y agoI probably conflate race and ethnic group. In Hebrew we use the word גזע gez'a for both. What exactly is the difference?