I'm not saying we are all the same or that there is no way to genetically group people based on distance. What I'm saying is that what we define as race is based on social, economic, religious, phenotypic, and regional differences. For example, most people would consider Arabs as non-white, but group African-Americans and Sub-Saharan Africans together, even though the genetic distance between the average Arab and European is smaller than the genetic distance between the average African-American and Sub-Saharan African.
>>18256075Virtually all categories are social constructs. In this one, do you think your post leads to the conclusion that our racial breakdown is mostly like the veggies-fruits split: largely arbitrary?
Greyhounds are a social construct, so I’m starting a line of racing bullldogs
Okay fat kidsLet's try this again.Step 1: Define termsFor you, define "race"Step 2: State hypothesisFor you "le race le fat upboat fat le?"Step 3: State null hypothesisFor you "not le race le fat le downboat fat le?"Step 4: Gather data to challenge hypothesisFor you, "data" means "shit you are 100% sure was written by someone with a relevant college degree and not some fat kid"Okay great now your'e all very fat and angry but let's get a snack and calm down and all fat down what definition of "race" we are using and then move forward without shrieking or jerking off (you weigh a lot).
>>18256095>Greyhounds are NOT a social construct. One drop of any other dog blood and it's not a greyhound anymore. It's been that way since God sent the first greyhound down to earth
>>18256082>veggies-fruits split: largely arbitrary"Fruit" has a technical biological definition that is not arbitrary, you are just fat and lazy and never look shit up>>18256095>a line of racing bullldogsIf you did, and it worked, at what point would you know that you had created a race of bulldogs that are a different race that the other bulldogs, and how does it relate to an ethnic group from Kenya that wins all Olympic distance running competitions but is clearly not any definition of a "race?" Are you too fat to understand what you have said?
>>18256110>"Fruit" has a technical biological definitionThat only botanists use. Stop muddying the waters.
>>18256075Yes, and ethnic groups can improve. But in many cases it's unlikely to happen, because the countries are too corrupt and backwards.
>>18256115ha ha holy shit how fat are youyou think calling out the actual meaning of a word is 'muddying the waters'no yeah you're right let's go back to the shallow end of your jizz-stank crib world where words don't have to mean things because that's schoolhmmm yeah let's discuss our comprehensions of topics after we make sure that words don't mean anything in particular just whatever retarded shit we learn from the broken drudges that are raising us alonejesus christ eat yourself to death faster
>>18256082>Virtually all categories are social constructs.Social in the sense that we have to agree on the constraints of a category. These constraints should be backed by verifiable data though. >In this one, do you think your post leads to the conclusion that our racial breakdown is mostly like the veggies-fruits split: largely arbitrary?Y'know, people aren't walking around with genetic testing kits to determine the backgrounds of people they interact with. At first glance, all we have to go off of are our eyes- so I think race is largely based on how you look compared to other groups of people. But since this comparison is based on your knowledge and understanding of the world, I would say our racial breakdown is largely arbitrary. The more exposure one has to different races and their features, the less alien different ethnicities within your race seem to be. After looks, then comes those other factors on the determination of race.
>>18256124>"actual" meaning>actually not used 99% of the timeSure.>>18256126This is all true but doesn't seem to lead to the conclusion that it's arbitrary. It just leads to the conclusion that genetic variation is just part of the puzzle.
>>18256075That's most of taxonomy from some level downwards. House cats are descendants of African wildcats. They can interbreed with any other wildcat, including scottish and european one(the wildcats can interbreed with each other too). The distinction between these 4 species is incredibly arbitrary, some biologists say that scottish wildcat is the same as euro one for instance.
>>18256075>Race is a social construct
>>18256348Holy shit! I'll make sure to avoid 4.5% of black people.
>>18256348>I'm not saying we are all the same
>>18256351Make sure to skip the 1 in 20 poisonous cookies from that cookie jar too.
>>18256348>9x more likely to carry the allele than whitesso are the murderous stabbing wiggers not white? Are the n% of blacks who don't carry the allele honorary aryans?
>>18256358Poisonous meaning you need genetic analysis to show any difference at all, when most people would think all blacks are the same. Aren't words fun!
>>18256348Differences in the frequency of a single gene variant like the MAOA 2R allele between population groups do not prove that race is a discrete biological reality, because human genetic variation is continuous and clinal, with far more diversity within than between socially defined racial categories, and no clear genetic boundaries separate them.
>>18256363Yes, words are fun because genetics only affect genetic analyses.
