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garbagetime | 3 years ago

A race: a people who have been largely or totally isolated (in terms of procreation) from other peoples for a very great number of generations.

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tchaffee|3 years ago

Source? The vast majority of people do not use that definition. Ask the average person for a list of races and they will easily answer with something like: African, Asian, European, etc.

And by your definition, many humans don't even have a race.

garbagetime|3 years ago

If you asked them to list races, they might give those out of some habit, though I doubt anybody seriously considers those to be races.

I mean, do people really think that the Han Chinese, the Persians, the Hindu Indians, etc., are all of the same race? No. People are aware there are various African, European, Asian, etc. races.

Why do you want a source? Just think about it. How could race be anything else?

Yes, many humans cannot be sorted into any one race. They have ancestors of various races.