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So the question we have is for humans, culture significantly impacts our experiences in life.
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Skin color is a physical characteristics that come with the socio -culture experiences.
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Why is race an invalid scientist concept and more of a social construct? how do we speak in a meaningful way about the range of variation in human physical characteristics around the globe? race is not a biological.
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It is a social construct, right? there is no gene or cluster of genes common to all the blacks or all the whites where race are real, you know, in the genetic sense.
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So racial classification for individuals would remain constant across the boundaries, yet a person who could be categorized as black in the united states might be considered white in the brazil or, you know, colored in the south africa.
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So our nation, you know, of what constitutes white and what constitute black is a product of the social context.
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It is utterly impossible to look at the delineation of a southern race and not see the civil war, the creation of an irish race.
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And not think of a cromwell's ethnic cleansing.
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The creation of a jewish race and not see anti -semitism, there is no fear.
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Sense of a whiteness or blackness, not even today...