Do you believe race is a social construct?
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Mixed is a race classification, its a person born from two different races or people who look racially ambiguous
Two black parents having a kid who does not fit the standard does not change the characteristics of what a certain race mostly looks like . Anomalies should not be used as an indicator of race, they are outliers and will never be the majority . Nothing more than a hiccup that will be corrected once they have kids with another person of the same race as them.
AlainLocke
Banned
Well those people are idiots
I mean obviously race is a biological and social construct....
But we got people outright saying it isn't real...and we been deluded...and I am like no...tell that to people that need bone marrow transplants...
Yes. Human biological differences can be attributed primarily to environments of our ancestors.
Arbitrary appearance categories were created by Europeans and negatively codified to justify the exploitation of others for the resources of their land.
In short, race is a social construct but the systems created to support the false construct are very, VERY real.
Arbitrary appearance categories were created by Europeans and negatively codified to justify the exploitation of others for the resources of their land.
In short, race is a social construct but the systems created to support the false construct are very, VERY real.
AlainLocke
Banned
Exactly...the problem is people use biological differences to exploit people...
So you believe the reason some people have dark skin and nappy hair is because of their environment ? With this type of thinking after a 1000 yrs have gone by white people should no longer have their pale white or tan complexion living in South Africa of the former Rhodesia and now Zimbabwe right?
YoungMasterGold
Rookie
Are you saying "mixed" is just one racial classification? Or do different mixtures of the "3 pure races" give rise to different races?
No, but they change the list of characteristics you'd use to identify that group. At least, that's how it'd work if you weren't practising pseudoscience.
What if said "anomaly" has a child with another similar anomaly? And their offspring all do the same? Do they get their own racial category that's independent of the original group?
Sounds like a social construct to me. Also, no, there are arguments in Africa about racial groupings, too. It can depend on the question being asked, and to whom the question is asked. Black isn't a race if it can be worn by anyone with a non-Black parent, surely.
Misreeya
Pro
Well those people are idiots
I am going to play devil advocate with you? Because you are a very intelligent person, and i like you as a poster.
Do you go by the old anthropology terms in regards to race, or you view race more a less socially. Since you are African like myself you being from the west and i being from the North East? Do you guys view us as a different race from you since according to the OP any any person who does subscribe to the anthropological characteristic of his idea of race are not the same race.
Example of this.
My people
Your people
Do you think we are the same race as you or different race? I know it is controversial but whatever?
Waste money on dumb courses brehs.
Yeah. Climate and environment is the determining factor in most outward phenotypical differences if I'm recalling correctly.
Our hair curls and coils tightly because it keeps our heads cool, while straight hair draws heat. Hell I can verify this with my own hair. If I straighten my hair in the summer, it's a MUCH hotter hairstyle than wearing my hair naturally with a wash and go when it dries curly.
Apparently it took hundreds of thousands of years (I think) for these changes to become standardized.
Cool fact, apparently researchers link the brightness of sun to Asiatic eye shape...an evolutionary habit passed down from them squinting at the brightness of the sun. Some Africans share Asiatic eye features for the same reasons.
Lol!
Keep in mind all of this is conjecture tho. Where do you think phenotypical differences come from?
I am going to play devil advocate with you? Because you are a very intelligent person, and i like you as a poster.
Do you go by the old anthropology terms in regards to race, or you view race more a less socially. Since you are African like myself you being from the west and i being from the North East? Do you guys view us as a different race from you since according to the OP any any person who does subscribe to the anthropological characteristic of his idea of race are not the same race.
Example of this.
My people
Your people
Do you think we are the same race as you or different race? I know it is controversial but whatever?
Pygmies are the original people of West Africa. Many West African groups originated in central and South Africa and didn't get to the West until later on. Aren't most East Africans in particular Somali and Ethiopians mixed with "non African" dna?
Time will tell if current day scientist are right because there have been plenty of white people living in Africa for well over a hundred years and they still don't have darker skin or coily hair. So this debate will for sure have an answer eventually that will not be questionable if environment really does play a role in our appearance .