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Originally Posted by rodog
As for the issue of there being no such thing as race...
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Such factoids are wholly irrelevant, especially here.
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Originally Posted by MountainMike
All of this is based on an old concept of human categories, such as race, ethnic group or nationality. This entire way of thinking has been based on semi science, and then recently challenged by new research into our human ancestry. Genetic studies have shown that we all have common ancestors...
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There is a serious problem with the idea presented above. Just as the world was sphere-shaped when (certain) people believed the world was flat, "there was no such thing as race" when (certain) people literally believed via "semi-science" (or whatever basis of belief) that there was certain particular races.
The physical reality didn't change to fit the "new research." It was the other way around. Obviously. But the physical/biological science angle hardly helps us deal with and interpret social science reality.
Please provide info. on the "new research" in anthropology that has forwarded the idea of scrapping human categories based on culture and/or ethnicity due to how "old" the concepts are.