My brilliant 5th grade teacher pointed out to us, his students, the conundrum in using the word "race". He made us see if "human race" is a legitimate meaningful phrase, then how can people be members of different "races"? I prefer the term "people groups".
My brilliant 5th grade teacher pointed out to us, his students, the conundrum in using the word "race". He made us see if "human race" is a legitimate meaningful phrase, then how can people be members of different "races"? I prefer the term "people groups".
My brilliant 5th grade teacher pointed out to us, his students, the conundrum in using the word "race". He made us see if "human race" is a legitimate meaningful phrase, then how can people be members of different "races"? I prefer the term "people groups".
Yep. Similarly, I tend to use "ethnicity" or "ethnic heritage". If anyone ever asks my "race", I intend to tell them just "human"... ;)
Culture is way more significant than ethnic heritage. All ethnicity will do for you is give you a predisposition to certain genetically-based defects!
I just commented that that's the right phrase, before seeing your comment.
And even the people groups are fluid and changeable, not biologically defined or easy to separate out from each other.