It’s artificial and arbitrary anyway. Skin color variation is real but grouping people into “races” based on skin color and a few other characteristics is made up. There is no way to really define where one race ends and another begins. No one can seem to define racial characteristics in a clear, quantifiable way. People with the same sk…
It’s artificial and arbitrary anyway. Skin color variation is real but grouping people into “races” based on skin color and a few other characteristics is made up. There is no way to really define where one race ends and another begins. No one can seem to define racial characteristics in a clear, quantifiable way. People with the same skin color but different origins are grouped into different races (Arabs, Mediterranean Europeans, some Central and South Americans) and people from the same country with different skin colors are the same race (example: Indians grouped into the Asian race even though their skin tone is as dark as many Africans’ skin and Indians look nothing like other Asians like Koreans or Japanese). Physical characteristics including skin color are on a continuum which makes it quite impossible to clearly delineate any “race.” In my opinion we would all do better not to buy into this myth of race.
It’s artificial and arbitrary anyway. Skin color variation is real but grouping people into “races” based on skin color and a few other characteristics is made up. There is no way to really define where one race ends and another begins. No one can seem to define racial characteristics in a clear, quantifiable way. People with the same skin color but different origins are grouped into different races (Arabs, Mediterranean Europeans, some Central and South Americans) and people from the same country with different skin colors are the same race (example: Indians grouped into the Asian race even though their skin tone is as dark as many Africans’ skin and Indians look nothing like other Asians like Koreans or Japanese). Physical characteristics including skin color are on a continuum which makes it quite impossible to clearly delineate any “race.” In my opinion we would all do better not to buy into this myth of race.