Is race an illusion?

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<p>Lol who the hell would conduct a study to corroborate race? It’s politically incorrect to do so, and to do so would also lead to the loss of one’s job as a researcher, at the very least of such consequences.</p>

<p>There is no such thing as race scientifically. Our difference does not stem from our race but who we are inside…</p>

<p>Meh, personally, I think ethnicity is a better means of differentiation than race is, the concept of race is getting increasingly fuzzy with globalization and interracial relationships</p>

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<p>only ignorant dbags do that^</p>

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<p>You didn’t read the rest of my post, did you?</p>

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<p>I’ve only ever heard white people say race doesn’t matter.</p>

<p>Read this </p>

<p>Furthermore, when genetic explanations are raised for specific diseases, most of my students will say, “Professor Graves, but we know that sickle-cell anemia is something that only black people get,” and the argument there also is false. The sickle-cell anemia allele is distributed throughout malaria transmission zones, which include central and western Africa but not southern Africa. It also includes the Mediterranean basin, Arabia and India.</p>

<p>And so we can’t find any specific disease that is found in any of those socially constructed racial groups, although different local populations may have different frequencies of genes that predispose them for disease, such as cystic fibrosis, which is found predominantly in Northern Europeans, Tay-Sachs, which is found predominantly in Jewish populations from Eastern Europe, and so forth. </p>

<p>Citation included</p>

<p>I’ll back up the statement that sickle cell screening is universal for all newborns in the United States, </p>

<p>[State</a> Disorder List](<a href=“http://genes-r-us.uthscsa.edu/nbsdisorders.htm]State”>http://genes-r-us.uthscsa.edu/nbsdisorders.htm) </p>

<p>because careful epidemiological research showed that “race” is not a good marker for who should be screened and who should not be screened. </p>

<p>The Whitmarsh and Jones (2010) collection of articles What’s the Use of Race?: Modern Governance and the Biology of Difference. Cambridge (MA): MIT Press gives the detailed citations to the research. That book and other recent books on related topics can be found in a bibliography on Wikipedia user space. </p>

<p>[User:WeijiBaikeBianji/AnthropologyHumanBiologyRaceCitations</a> - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WeijiBaikeBianji/AnthropologyHumanBiologyRaceCitations]User:WeijiBaikeBianji/AnthropologyHumanBiologyRaceCitations”>User:WeijiBaikeBianji/AnthropologyHumanBiologyRaceCitations - Wikipedia)</p>

<p>I know a hispanic mother who has to bubble black hispanic for one of her kids and white hispanic for the other. They were raised under the same roof, same circumstances, yet their race is different.</p>

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<p>Wait. Can you please elaborate why?</p>

<p>Neorobie
Please explain because I couldn’t see why two kids who are, assumingly, from the same the two people have different ethnicities…unless of course the have two different fathers. Two kids of the same two people can’t have different ethnicities…</p>

<p>Same ethnicity, different race. The mother’s skin is pale, and I’m assuming the husband is darker. So one kid’s skin took after the mother, the other, after the dad. When you put hispanic, it asks whether you are white or non-white hispanic (and on the u.s. census it asks for your ethnicity and then your race(without hispanic being an option))</p>

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<p>no. just no.</p>