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Race: Social construct or biological
Social construct 14%  14%  [ 2 ]
Biological 7%  7%  [ 1 ]
It's a bit of both. 79%  79%  [ 11 ]
Total votes : 14

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10 Apr 2009, 1:46 am

ruveyn wrote:
race is defined in terms of genetically inherited characteristics such as hair color, skin color, shape of eye, head shape and such like.
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There is no set of trait measurements that allows us to classify people into groups that would match-up with everyone's "racial" identities or hereditary lineages.