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Some people say "race" is a meaningless term, or that it doesn't exist at all. But if we saw a large group of people comprised of Chinese, Nigerians and Icelanders, we'd be able to sort them accurately, even though no individual looks exactly like any other. It may not be that important, but I think most of us know something real is there. We spend a lot of time here discussing race. But what is it, actually?
Personally, I like Steve Sailer's very simple definition: races are very large extended families that are somewhat inbred. People of the same race look a little alike, and perhaps share some other traits and tendencies, because they are more closely related to each other than to people outside their race.
Race isn’t real, but racism is an ideology. Adherence of this ideology love to hide behind rhetoric like “Muslim isn’t a race” or “illegals aren’t a race” and they are right, that does not however absolve them of racism.
As an accusation, racism is often conflated with xenophobia. I think race has the most meaning as a classification of phenotype. Genetically most of the diversity, and thus most of the "races" occur within sub-Saharan Africans, while the out-of-Africa group is more homogeneous.
An arbitrary grouping of human beings based on superficial qualities.
That may have been a reasonable position to take before the DNA data started piling up. But we know now that our traditional notions of racial groups correspond very well to actual genetic population groups which arose in various parts of the world due to their geographic isolation from one another. Some people are very surprised when they send in their DNA sample and find out where their people are from. But the vast majority are not.
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