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I wonder then, what about the Melanesians that have 6% of DNA of a unique population? Or that asians and whites have wildly different reactions to milk. Or th
by speeder 13y ago
I wonder then, what about the Melanesians that have 6% of DNA of a unique population?
Or that asians and whites have wildly different reactions to milk.
Or that some diseases only affect blacks, or whites, or whatever?
This is not data? People use freely the same techniques to categorize humans, to categorize other animals with significant variations in their species, why only humans you must not use the word "race" and use other words to describe the same thing?
- thwest 13y agoYou've learned anything about the history of race relations and think "race" is a better word to describe that phenomenon than "lactose intolerant"? I'll be right back, going to inform my friends that because they aren't Chinese we can go get ice cream.
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- dragonwriter 13y ago> Or that asians and whites have wildly different reactions to milk. Asians and whites don't have wildly different reactions to milk. Adult mammals are generally lactose intolerant. There is a mutation that, in humans, is found far more often in people with ancestry in Northern Europe (which isn't coextensive with "whites") than any other origin, but which is neither universally absent in all other people or universally present in people of that origin that results in lactose tolerance. Most supposed "racial" differences (EDIT: that is, most that refer to anything that is actually a measurable difference between real human populations at all) are of this type -- things that are statistically more or less common in a population of a particular origin that is not coextensive with any of the usual "race" categories with which the supposed hard-and-fast difference is popularly associated.