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View Poll Results: Race and Sexuality:
Race is a construct, but sexuality is not 2 28.57%
Both race and sexuality are constructs 0 0%
Race is not a construct, but sexuality is 0 0%
Neither race nor sexuality are constructs - they are real, distinct categories 5 71.43%
Voters: 7. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 01-20-2010, 08:23 PM
 
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Or, do you see them both as creations of a particular society?
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Old 01-20-2010, 08:35 PM
 
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There are physiological and cognitive differences between the races as well as between sexual orientations. The differences are not "made up" by society.
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Old 01-20-2010, 10:55 PM
 
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Well?
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Old 01-20-2010, 10:56 PM
 
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Is this a 'nature vs nurture' debate?

I say both for both.
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Old 01-20-2010, 11:45 PM
 
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There are obvious differences. There are, even if people wish to disbelieve, absolutes in this world.

Race difference is obvious.

However, stereotypes and prejudices we have toward races are formed by society.

Sexuality is not specific enough. If you mean do I think women were born knowing to mate with males, and vice versa, for the sake of procreation without society TELLING they have to, then yes. I do.

However, do I believe that all women and men will have a sexual attraction toward the opposite sex? No. I think society influences how they decide that later in life.

Put a man and a women on an island and leave them. If they survive to breeding age they will “figure it out”. They don’t have to be told.
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