(January 22, 2016 at 12:29 am)Aractus Wrote:(January 21, 2016 at 11:52 am)Tiberius Wrote: There isn't scientific consensus that humans can be divided into "races", however I feel that most of those scientists just don't like the word "race" and the negative connotations that come with it (i.e. racism). There are clear differences between certain sets of humans that seems to be genetic, and denying those differences is dangerous. Whether you call it race or not is irrelevant IMO.
The word "race" describes something that doesn't exist. It's an ancient term used to distinguish "us" from "them". You can see examples of it in the Bible where certain people living in specific 5km radius Canaanite cities are described of being a different "race" to the Hebrew race, or if you prefer, God's "holy race" as in Ezra 9:2: "For they have taken some of their daughters to be wives for themselves and for their sons; so that the holy race has mixed itself with the peoples of the lands."
There are certainly ethnic traits - but do bare in mind that our understanding of ethnicity is far more fluid than that of "race". And there are actually several ways in which to describe a person's ethnicity, with no one way being perfect.
Perhaps the word enthicity is a better term for what i am trying to describe, because the context to which I use the term race is simply genetic differences between groups of people. I certainly, and I think anyone reading my comments will agree, that I don't try to use the term in a us and them ways, rather just as a acknowledgement that there are physical differences in different peoples from different parts of the of the planet I.E white people have far lower rates of lactose intolerance then native Americans. These are simply facts. Now what most racist would ascribe as racial traits are actually cultural and in truth the persons minute physical differences have little affect on the person as a whole. IE you take some a person with white skin and a person with black skin and raise them both in the same way (all things being equal) them statically one is no more likely to do something then the other. IE a crime.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
