Re: I can\'t believe I\'m starting a race thread...
I agree with the statement in OP, but would rephrase it as following:
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Race, as largely defined by skin color , is a social construct because it is an oversimplification of human genetic diversity.
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The division of humans into groups based predominantly on skin color is pretty arbitrary. H-omo (I can't believe it censors that word) sapiens could just as easily, and perhaps more usefully, be divided into groups based on lactose-intolerance, in which case North Africans and Swedes would be one group, and Sub-Saharan Africans and Asians would be another.
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