Subject: Re: On interracial relationships, or anything
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 11:08:32 GMT

Deb Smyre (dsmyre@primenet.com) wrote:
: Quasidemon  wrote

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: : And,
: : we haven't even begun to touch on the intangible aspects of race,
: : like shared history and familial relations.

: This speaks to the social construction of race, something in which I firmly
: believe.  However, the existence of race as a social construct doesn't support
: the existence of race as a biological construct.

But the phenotypic (not merely cultural) differences upon which 
race as a social construct rests, are clearly heritable.  Therefore
biology is at play, whether or not the biologists and geneticists
are bright enough yet to establish the operative correlates.

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: Deb Smyre
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(who is no biologist, but who understands logic quite well)


	 

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