By necessity, they have to be significantly more similar to members of that race than any other

Otherwise they are considered mixed

And yet the data shows that those divisions are far more blurred than is generally perceived

No, it just means that people are being misidentified

Like if they have brown eyes, they aren’t white

Simple as

Black hair as well

If the races are different islands, we have a lot of mixed islands springing up between them that think they belong on one or the other main islands

But they belong on none of them

I don’t think you realize how much you’re imposing your interpretations into this. DNA is just a thing that exists, but you’re putting your own assumptions about how different genes should be grouped and categorized into it to make that framework happen

Overall genetic similarity is the only way to sort them

Any other way is just dishonest

Humans have a tendency to impose an ordered understanding onto naturally occurring chaos

These are what the charts look like. It’s commonly understood.

I find it interesting that you cite genetic similarity as the basis for race while discounting research that shows a lack of similarity. What’s really dishonest?

Ok? Once again, that’s data, but you’re also imposing your paradigms onto it

No it’s just the facts of the situation

Ok, let me ask you a hypothetical question

Let’s imagine two couples. One couple is blonde haired, blue eyed, European, total Nazi’s dream couple. The other is from central Africa, dark skinned, as African as African can be. By your definition of race, they’re different races, correct?

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Yes

Now, both women become pregnant by their respective man. But, suddenly, out of nowehere, gamma rays from space hit both newly formed embryos, altering their DNAs. In a totally unlikely and basically impossible in real life scenario, their DNA mutates in such as way that both babies now have identical genetic codes. The two children are now, for all genetic purposes, identical twins. Are they the same race?

Yes, whatever race the gamma rays made them, potentially an undesignated race

That’s a very interesting answer, because I don’t think most people would agree with you on that. Whatever that’s worth

Why not

I feel like most would throw something about culture or heritage or geographic location in, which further cements the idea that race is an imagined community sort of thing

Race and culture are different

Still, your framework for understand race requires you to sort and categorize data into fairly arbitrary categories based on small similarities, so it’s still interpretive on your part

I agree that race and culture are different. Race is arbitrary categorization while culture is about collective creativity

I base race purely off of genes

Now, I’m positive race does have effects on culture

Why are you positive of that?

But, it doesn’t mean that people can’t adopt the cultures of other races

You know what they say: only fools are positive, geniuses hesitate

Lol

Look at Asian brains and how their culture reflects it

Their culture was formed in a way that they saw best due to the way they think

Language plays a role as well

But language is also constructed by the brain

You could just as easily argue that culture forms in response to historical and geographic context.

The overall themes of Asian culture are from their hardware