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Originally posted by BlueTimberwolf
It's not arbitrary, and that what you're missing. When White people "rediscovered" Africa, did they find people with blond hair blue eyes? I doubt it, because everyone with those genes died out because they could not survive in that environment. They are now two different races, and that is concrete.
Why do we accept animals are different but not humans? I'm sure if butteries migrated to different environment they would start to look similar to butterflies that already live their over time. We have common ancestors as Gorillas, but are we gorillas? No.
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It IS arbitrary. There's nothing systematic about it. The phenotypes that are deemed relevant are arbitrary and change from race to race and culture to culture. The cut off points between spectrums for the relevant phenotypes are arbitrary, blurry, and very ill defined. There's absolutely nothing concrete about it.
Here you have a Scandinavian child, and
here you have an Italian child. Clearly they have differing phenotypes, but our society groups them all in as White. Meanwhile, our society sees
these Chinese people as one race, but the Chinese view those three as three distinct races. How do you not understand how the concept of race is arbitrary?
Different butterflies are different
species and therefore do not (generally) cross-breed. Gorillas are also a different species from humans. So none of that mess bares any relevance.
