Re: There are races

G*rd*n (gcf@panix.com)
2 Jan 1997 07:57:10 -0500

Duncan@drmac.demon.co.uk:
| ... If there's inter-breeding along the way with <whatever>, there
| are still only seven possible outcomes for each individual (i.e. assigned to
| one of the seven races on the basis of their overall score with respect to
| *MULTIPLE* traits).

You can certainly construe human beings into seven races by
means of (physical) traits. Or eight or six or five
billion or one.

So what? The point is that race is a social construction,
an arbitrary division of the human race into categories that
have not been demonstrated to have any significance.

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