I can't believe I'm starting a race thread...

[Rduke55]

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But then we are back at the beginning. Race is useful as long as you have a useful definition of race. I agree with you that we currently do not have one, and that what most people think of when they think about race is really just skin color, or some other sort of superficial characteristic that probably conveys very little information about other similarities.

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This is more my point. Also, you got my post before I edited it.

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Considering I have a genetics exam in like 20 hours, I am a FAR bigger fan of the 'ethnicity' characterization than I am the 'race' one. Ashkenazi Jews are the greatest thing ever to happen to genetics students, they are ALWAYS the answer.

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A problem I've run into in these discussions on this board is people not understanding differences between smaller groupings, such as ethnicity, and race as commonly defined.