Race [was: political correctn]

[Herb Stahlke]

Is this another way of saying that race is a socio-cultural, not a
biological, construct?

Herb

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> I was about to say the same.  I remember not too many years ago a TV
> program where the genomes of a number of "racially" diverse young
> people were analyzed.  Many were found not to correlate most closely
> with other persons of their own "race", but with persons of other
> "races" -- such as (although I don't remember the specific instances)
> a "black" of American ancestry with a Scandinavian.
>
> Another way of putting the situation is that there is more genetic
> diversity *within* a single "race" than there is across "races".
>
> Joel
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> At 1/21/2010 07:17 PM, Salikoko S. Mufwene wrote:
>>ronbutters at AOL.COM wrote:
>>>And for good reason.
>>>
>>>  Race is determined by genes.
>>Biologists would not agree with your statement, because they  have found
>>no correlation between the geographical distribution of genetic
>>materials and that of races. For them race is a social, not a genetic,
>>category.
>>
>>Sali.
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