Carnifex Umbris wrote:
Well, if you're all so certain about races having distinct physical characteristics, what am I? As you can see from my avatar, I've got what you'd call a "Jewish nose," my eyes are very European, the rest of my face is mostly English/German, and I'm built like a peasant.
None of this is reflective of the fact I've got Native American ancestry as well. What am I? Even better, what's my mom? She's as pale as I am (or rather, I'm as pale as she is, and my hair is the color hers used to be before it went grey), but her eyes are the typical Native American shape. So is she white? Native American because of her eyes?
Here's another one: someone with my features and skin color, but whose grandparents were of African descent and whose skin color qualified them as "black." So what is this hypothetical person? Black or white?
See what I mean?
Of course there are gray areas between the races, because race mixing is possible within the human species. So what? Races exist. So do combinations of races.
Whiskey & coke exists. So do
Whiskey and
Coke.
Sir Wanksalot wrote:
I think people tend to think race and species are the same thing. We are the same species, yet we have very minor genetic differences that define races. This does not mean one is better than the other, it just means that a certain group evolved certain traits to best suit their original environment. Hence black people have heaps of melanin in their skin to cope with sun exposure that would frazzle a Swede in 60 seconds.
And I also believe that clashes between races are a result of cultural differences rather than physical ones.
This is pretty much how i think.
Sir Wanksalot wrote:
And I also believe that clashes between races are a result of cultural differences rather than physical ones.
...And i also believe that culture often goes hand in hand with race.