Is race a real thing?

Question

Please explain in some coherent way. No appeals to emotion or bandwagon arguments please - rational only. I am not certain that our conception of race fits the reality of race. I am looking for some guidance on how to approach this issue.

Answer 1

no... there's no such thing... phenotype is completely different. there are dark people with straight hair/small features and fair people with curly hair/large features. thats like asking if there are different races of sheep. while we may all look different, we are still the same species. if we weren't, we wouldn't be able to procreate amongst each other.

Answer 2

Race is strictly arbitrary.

Race has never mattered, it has always been about who can subjugate who, while amassing enough wealth and creating an persona of "superiority" in the process. Wanna hear it, here it goes:

In pre-colonial times, Europeans subjugated whomever they wanted that was below their social class. Before the Native Americans and Africans, the Europeans created social classes to subjugate their own poor, placing them in virtual slavery.

Then they "discovered" the Native Americans and killed the vast majority of them off by regular and biological warfare. After they figured out that Native Americans didn't fit physically the bill for building an empire, they kidnapped Africans to do their dirty work. They didn't really care about race, what they cared about was the ability to amass large amounts of money with minimum effort and maximum subjugation. If Africans didn't exist, they would have done some other race the same way.

In Nazi Germany, the Nazis wanted the wealth of the Jews living there--though it may not have been very much. They could have cared less about their "inferiority", they needed a way to seize their assets quickly and with minimum opposition. So to make Jews an "enemy" of the state was their way to create wealth and kill the people who rightfully owned the wealth that was accumulated.

Race is used today in the same way. Notice that most of the poor is brown or black. It is easy to equate black and brown to poverty and bad, while it equates white to rich and good.

Answer 3

Race is genuine. in spite of the undeniable fact that it particularly is too hard for idiots such as you to attain what genuine race is. White isn't a race. Races in Europe are: Scandinavian, Celtic, Mediterranean(Roman, Spanish, Greek), Slavic, Germanic, Uralic, Nordic... etc. yet i assume it particularly is waaay to hard so which you will understand that each and every person Europeans at the instant are not of the comparable race, yet they're organic.(mixed human beings are excluded) each and every a style of races have distinctive seems. In some you will discover small ameliorations, in some lots, and in some you may not tell a difference.

Answer 4

No. If you want to talk about your history, say heritage, or ancestry...but Race is something we made to separate eachother...sometimes when I am with a group of friends and someone mentions that there are only 2 black people in the whole group...im like whats..ohh, right, whatever, your my person and Im your person. Race is also a means to make one feel superior. Because my heritage has done more than yours I am better than you type of thing I guess. I am eager to read what the sensible not ignorant people answer to this. I like the question.

Answer 5

Not really. We're all apart of the same race, the human race. For some reason we have found other ways to divide ourselves by dividing the human race into sections. You're classified by color and treated as though different when really only a few key genes make you different from another person.

Answer 6

I think Race goes back to the days of Tribalism and in many ways the Gang has now replaced race and started a new Tribalism

Answer 7

it's real but what type of thing is it? i would argue it's more cultural than genetic. people can identify with a race that's not their 'genetic race', and on any measure you care to name, the differences between average representatives of races are far smaller than the differences between randomly sampled individuals of the same race. discriminating on the basis of race is unjust and has little if anything to do with reality.

Answer 8

Technically, yes, by the pigment of your skin, but color changes, so race can actually vary, say if someone gets a tan, or sick, or Michael Jackson. Seriously though, race should be put aside, that's how our world can be more productive. Good question.

Answer 9

Yes as it exists from phenotype; yet it is misused as a political statement and not an actual phenotypical description.