My real ethnicity views
I don’t find the race concept to be useful. I tend to use African American and black interchangeably in this blog From Rationalwiki “ Modern scientific consensus is strongly against the race concept, though this was not always the case. In contrast, biological evidence for racialism has always been relatively weak, and modern evidence conclusively shows that racialism is fundamentally flawed. Scientific consensus: Races aren't useful “”[B]oundaries in global variation are not abrupt and do not fit a strict view of the race concept; the number of races and the cutoffs used to define them are arbitrary. The race concept is at best a crude first-order approximation to the geographically structured phenotypic variation in the human species. —biological anthropologist John Relethford in 2009 Major institutions with expertise have come down against the biological usefulness of race: “”DNA studies do not indicate that separate classifiable subspecies (races) exist within modern humans. W...
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