Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"?
wuzzlewoggle@feddit.org 16 hours agoTo quote the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article on Race (human categorization):
Modern science regards race as a social construct, an identity which is assigned based on rules made by society. While partly based on physical similarities within groups, race does not have an inherent physical or biological meaning.
BombOmOm@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Physical traits are passed through genes onto kids. The kids have much the same traits as the parents. Asian parents have asian kids. Why are we doing elementary biology here?
This really isn’t the argument y’all should be latching onto.
seralth@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Race is the construct ethnicity is physical. Race is basically the loose and flimsy way to over generalize ethnicity.
It’s basically like the difference between gender and sex.
One is based on the cultures perceptived notions of a group of people based on only physical characteristics.
The other is based on the hard facts such as history or biology.
It’s easy to change ones race, just go to a different part of the world with a different view of what the races are. It’s impossible to change ones ethnicity as you can’t change who your parents are or where you grew up.
This gets into the nerdy weeds and generally the avg layman just thinks fo the two terms as the same thing. Which is where most of the problems come from
wuzzlewoggle@feddit.org 7 hours ago
I’m not saying the physical traits you are talking about aren’t real. I’m saying you’re using the wrong word to describe them. Biologically there is no such thing as different human races. You are talking about ethnic groups.
If you take two people from an African country they can be genetically closer to an European or Asian person than to each other.