When will people realize that there is only one race, that is the human one, but there are many cultures?

Question

Does everybody thinks that African, white European, Asian, north American Indian, south American Indian, Australian aboriginals, pacific islanders, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese etc. etc are all different races? All there is are different cultures. Get it right.

I know that people love putting people into groups, so that we can blame them for all the wrongs of the world.
Has not all the world cultures contributed to the growth of the human race. The Koreans for example had a thriving culture when white European where fighting over sticks.
Us white folk are just finding out that we are the minority in this world and some of us just do not like the fact.

Answer 1

I didn't agree with you when I read your question, the dictionary definds how words are being used, and states:-
'race, n. the descendants of a common ancestor: esp those who inherit a common set of characteristics: such a set of descendants, narrower than a species.'
Although the opening seems to agree with you, that is a very narrow view, and it appears that what you call a race, is actually a species.
All humans are one species, all squirrels are one species,
Within the species, there are different races.

Answer 2

Sorry, but not all differences between people are cultural.

I agree that the concept of clearly distinct races is somewhat dodgy, not least because of interbreeding. However, it is clear to anyone with eyes that some people in the world have darker skin than others, and that some people's skin is very close to black. These people often (but not always) have curly hair and relatively pronounced lips. Similarly, some people's eyes are a different shape from the eyes of other people and these people's hair is often very straight. Some other people, on the other hand, have blond hair and blue eyes; some people's hair is even red. And so on... Some people have a mixture of such traits.

And I'm sorry, but these things are genetic, not cultural.

Now, as I said, I agree that the concept of distinct races is problematic, but whatever labels we apply to these differences, people are still going to notice them and, sadly, some people are going to treat you badly if you look different.

Just saying that there aren't any races, but that there are many cultures, won't change a thing: it will remain obvious that there are differences between people that are not cultural, but genetic. The answer is not to ignore these differences, or call them cultural when they're not, but to bring our children up to recognise that such genetic diversity is irrelevant to how we treat people.

Answer 3

I understand the intent of your question to be a good one, but culture is NOT the same as race. They are synonyms, which is why we have two words which are similar in interpretation. Saying otherwise is denying the expressive power, good and bad, of the English language

People can just as easily abuse a culture, as they can abuse a race.

The list that's given doesn't translate into culture (it may be intentional)
Are you saying all North American Indians share the same culture? I think not.
Same applies with "white european".
Then there's sub-cultures to be considered, are they to treated differently?


Not all cultures are heading for the same finishing line either. so it isn't a race as in sport.

Answer 4

we are all one race and all of us have blood working by means of our veins, yet do not forger we live in societies that are hierarchical so there'll consistently be type and that's what created race interior the 1st place. Race is actual non existent, that's a man made ingredient merely like nationality. we at the instant are not all biologically the same and we don't all have the same innovations nevertheless. all of us have distinctive DNA and that's what distinguishes us from each and every human in the international because each and every person in this international has their very own unique DNA.

Answer 5

I saw a program on the Discovery Channel a while back - "The Original Eve". I think that was the tittle, anyway they tracked the genetic profile of the human race and were able to map how we spread across the planet from one generation to the next generation. All of us can be traced to one of two sister that left Africa thousands of years ago. It was a really amazing series.

At the end of it to help demonstrate their case they took a random women from Greece and a native American Indian and profiled their DNA. Genetically they were related and the women from Greece had DNA strands from the sister who went west and the native American had the DNA of the sister that had turned East. If you haven't already seen the series watch it it fascinating stuff.

Answer 6

(race)
1. a group of persons related by common descent or heredity.
2. a population so related.

(population)

all the individuals of one species in a given area

Okay, lets say I buy what you're saying. What the point? Does it really matter. People will exploit any difference in one another even if we are the same "race".

Answer 7

It is sad that we live in a world full of morans.
Love could do amazings things to the world, if only everybody shared that view.
We are all as one, yet so very divided.
I just hope the next life is a better one then this.

Answer 8

5 minutes before the world ends.

Answer 9

I believe that it's a fact of human nature that we tend to categorize ourselves in little groups just so that we can believe that "our" group is better than "their" group. I'm with you. We're all one race with different cultures. And different does not been better (or worse)..

Answer 10

You are quite right we are the human race.
All of us inside, are just the same.