Do you believe race is a tangible thing? To make it short, many social scientists argue that race is a social construct created for political reasons. It is something that has been changed numerous times over the years and varies from country to country.

On the other hand, some people argue that there are several factors that suggest race does exist. For example, people of African descent tend to be more prone to sickle cell disease than people of Caucasian and Asian descent. White Americans are more susceptible to multiple sclerosis than Black Americans.

It's an old and dangerous discussion really.

It is a social construct it’s not a objective thing and we create the rules for it. People being more susceptible to different diseases doesn’t make different races. That’s like saying that having blonde hair and blue eyes makes you a different race than people with brown hair and brown eyes or green eyes we all know that shìt they tried to pull wasn’t true.

It’s the truth but there’s a reason why there’s still real issues though it’s not like the issues don’t exist and they’re important but they’re just created by us

I mean people in areas where there's a high risk of getting malaria have a higher chance of getting sickle cell, why that's conflated with being black is beyond me, move a little South of Equatorial Africa and sickle cell disease is nonexistent

@Cookies type thread.

Tbh

Not sure what you are implying. Do you think everyone believes that race is socially constructed? There are people out there who assume it is a real thing, especially with it being so embedded in American culture. I am certain some of those people are on this site, and if so they can state why itt.

same reason why racists talk about head shape

weird

Yes I think it is both a cultural and biological concept.

Op should take this as a compliment.

That being said yeah it’s a construct

lay off the p****es

Technically isn’t it a tangible thing bc it’s in our DNA which is a physical thing

There’s nothing in our DNA that denotes ‘race’ .

Its fake

I guess “race” in this context would be a man made thing. But there would have to be something in our DNA that makes us the color we are right?. Which is where our construct of race comes from

Ethnicity is real and objective, race is a social construct. I'm considered a certain race in my country on the African continent, if I were to go to America, I'd be considered black by everyone who saw me

Sickle cell is primarily shared among Africans and Arabs. Following that theory suggests that they descend from the same ancestry, but this is somewhat false.

Race =/= color. You have dark-skinned Asians, but you also have light-skinned Africans

No technically it doesn't

I think it does. People from different regions obviously have different physical traits

Yes I do

Even if it's a social construct I still think it exists

But you’re choosing what makes someone a different race. We’re still the same species but there’s no rules to race it’s something we created as a society

If I can run a DNA test and it tells me what region my ancestors originated doesn’t that kinda prove that race is a thing?

It tells you based on your dna what region youre from based on the a***ysis of dna from other people from the same region not youre actual race

Different color eyes dont mean different race but we decided that different skin color does. This is all of the creation of us we made the rules for race not science. Science and genetics gave us differences in us but it didnt tell us that black people white people hispanic people and asian people all had to be split up into different groups and looked at differently. Nobody looked at people with brown hair and brown eyes different from people with blond hair and blue eyes until hitlet came around and people literally thought they weren’t the same. Its a social construct. Theres only science behind the fact that we look different but not the motives behind it thats all us as a society

It's a discursive category produced by power/knowledge relations.