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Is Race a social construct?
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Is Race a social construct?

Yes and no. There are instances where race is a sociological concept, such as America's one drop rule. Whoopi Goldberg and Rashida Jones are considered the same race and would both be entitled to affirmative action. And Hispanics in America have this weird thing where even the ones that are nearly all European ancestry consider themselves non-whites. In Russia they call everyone blacks who have darker skin, even other Caucasians such as Turks. So it can be sociological concept in ways.

But of course there are different phenotypes of people too that evolved as adaptations to different environments. We call these races in the biological sense. But scientists will tell you that they have no use for the word race. It can also be hard to say where one race ends and the next begins. Some don't consider Turks white because they are at the frontier of Europe. Some don't consider Ethiopians black for example, or at least less black. I tend to think of human races as being somewhat analogous to breeds of dogs. You can have purebreds and you can have mutts, but they are all the same species Canis Domesticus.
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