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Post by Elizabeth on Sept 25, 2017 21:35:01 GMT
Some say it is and some say it isn't. Discuss.
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mothman
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Post by mothman on Dec 1, 2017 7:05:07 GMT
As real as reality gets.Why some people are trying to deny it now that is the question
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Post by yellowtie on Feb 6, 2018 21:46:59 GMT
Race definitely is something that can be traced back to our biological roots. For thousands of years, our species has evolved in mostly isolated pockets around the world. And while most Eurasians are similar, there are differences, both in mental and physical faculties. A race that does stand out a lot however, are the Africans.
Africans do not have neanderthal DNA in them, which is a trait within most of the other species on Earth, not to mention their much lower IQs.
Now people might consider the fact that the ability to interbreed would cause the races to be the same species, but then the same thing could be said about Neanderthals. And besides, relative to how other species are subcategorised, humans have enough genetic difference between ourselves for the same to happen.
Now I don't particularly hate other races for being different, but if we are going to get along, we need to acknowledge that we can be different, and just live with that. Success should be determined by merit, talent and skill, and not skewed by how different races do things. If 2 people of different races perform to the same standard, they should be given the same amount. Though redistribution of wealth to force this to happen is not a good idea.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2018 9:56:01 GMT
Yes and it's more than just skin color. It's also other things like skull shape, eyes, bones, etc. Like native Americans have different skulls and it's obvious. I think they also have a different kind of sternum You said it.
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Post by Polaris on Feb 7, 2018 21:55:41 GMT
Race was real when people stressed kinship relations and led communal life in shape of the extended family, clan, tribe and race. in Modern life all this has been replaced by materialistic values and the values of individualism. societies have been rearranged as high class, middle class, and lower class according to how much money they have, and power is gained through wealth.
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Post by Mocha on Feb 7, 2018 22:06:11 GMT
I tend to notice a correlation between people who say race isn't real, and those who call everything racist.
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Post by verity on Feb 9, 2018 5:03:26 GMT
Some people build straw huts and some people build castles.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2018 7:01:45 GMT
yes it exists . I Like F1 race the most
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Post by Leebert on Feb 14, 2018 10:20:40 GMT
Actually, the concept of race was conceived for the sole purpose of establishing the social stratification, the idea of race first experienced during the expulsion of the Muslims and the Jews in Iberian peninsula, when the Andalusian Caliphate fell, the Catholic Monarchs Isabel and Ferdinand had dreamed of establishing the true Catholic state, hence, they instigated the eradication of the non-Christians by either expelling them or executing them. However, there were large numbers of both Muslims and Jews converted to Catholicism so that they can remain safe in their homelands. So to ensure that only truly faithful Christians remained within the realm, the grand inquisitor Torquemada reformulated the Inquisition to inquire not just into defendants’ religious faith and practices but into their lineage. Only those who could demonstrate their ancestry to those Christians who resisted the Moorish invasion were secure in their status in the realm. Thus was born the idea of purity of blood (Limpieza de Sangre), not fully the biological concept of race but perhaps the first occidental use of blood heritage as a category of religio-political membership. And eventually, the concept of human distinction was further developed by prominent scholars and anthropologists such as Immanuel Kant, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach for academic purposes. However, during the Colonialism and Imperialism era, the European invaders exerted the idea of "race" inr oder to subjugate the occupied countries
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Post by Polaris on Feb 22, 2018 21:58:47 GMT
biologically race does not exist
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Post by Διαμονδ on Feb 22, 2018 23:16:40 GMT
biologically race does not exist Race is a concept used in the categorization of humans into groups, called races or racial groups, based on combinations of shared physical traits, ancestry, genetics, and social or cultural traits. Although such groupings lack a firm basis in modern biology, they continue to have a strong influence over contemporary social relations. First used to refer to speakers of a common language and then to denote national affiliations, by the 17th century race began to refer to physical (phenotypical) traits. The term was often used in a general biological taxonomic sense, starting from the 19th century, to denote genetically differentiated human populations defined by phenotype
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Post by joustos on Mar 12, 2018 19:51:07 GMT
Like various scientists, the people at the Smithsonian explain the various human colorations as the results of Adaptations to various climates or environments. They presume that the earliest humans had some neutral coloration or one of the major types of kno wn colorations. They are unaware that racial traits [colour; physiognomy; etc.]are inherited. So, (1) it is not true that there was a first human family with definite racial traits; and (2) a bloodline of (e.g.) African Black people who live in a temperate zone for centuries does NOT adapt to the new environment in order for it to survive. There may have been a polygenesis of humans in originally different environment; the Biblical account of a monogenesis is a fiction. While the somatic differentiations into races remains an unexplained issue, I wish to introduce the idea of "cerebral races" (within any given somatic race, or perhaps only the Caucasoid race). Individuals differ in "general" intelligence, but then there grow geniuses create a civilization -- by creating poetry, dramas, music, philosophy, science, painting, sculpture, farms, architecture, vehicle-building, power-tools, etc., namely creations in and out of one's world. The western civilization, quite unique in human history, is the product of genial brains within the Caucasoid race, but their formation remains as mysterious as the formation of different genders in the animal kingdom. The theory of adaptation does not explain anything.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2018 6:49:23 GMT
Race was real when people stressed kinship relations and led communal life in shape of the extended family, clan, tribe and race. in Modern life all this has been replaced by materialistic values and the values of individualism. societies have been rearranged as high class, middle class, and lower class according to how much money they have, and power is gained through wealth. nope, it does exists, and it will always be. The difference in skull, eyes, itself determines that who shares bonding with whom BLOOD IS THICKER THAN WATER, you see.
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