Thatcuber (Offline)

There's certainly no such thing as an "east asian race". Koreans are one of the most genetically homogenous and distinct populations on earth. The fact that you've grouped them together with the Japanese foregrounds what I had already expected, i.e. that you have only the most tenuous grasp of the subject matter you are discussing.

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Firstly Race exists because if it didn't, the term wouldn't exist. I understand what they are saying with the genetic variation, but the doesn't mean race doesn't exist, it means that the genetic variation between races is 0.15

It exists only as a concept in peoples' minds, just as with love and hate.

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Secondly, the fact it is that the 0.15 does exist. That 0.15 is why host to a number of difference between europeans, asians and africans. A white person is not just as likely to have black skin, frizzy hair, larger lips and a flatter nose than a random african.

We could choose a different set of arbitrary genetic markers at different locales that two individuals have in common (independent of skin colour) amounting to 0.15 and call this a 'race'. Why focus on these specific markers over any others?