Fun fact, there is more genetic variation within Africa than there is in the rest of the world combined. This is because only a small lineage of humans ended up migrating out of Africa.
HikingVet@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
There is only the human race. Any differences in appearance is less that a % of genetic difference.
cattywampas@midwest.social 4 days ago
shalafi@lemmy.world 4 days ago
There’s no logical difference, but there’s all the emotional difference in the world. We evolved to be suspicious of that tribe over on the other mountain. And well we should have been! They might just come over and slaughter us for our women and land.
Besides, we didn’t evolve to operate in groups larger than about 150. Past that, other people become objects in our minds. We can’t be truly close to more than that many people. What is the Monkeysphere? ( <- solid article on all this)
It’s why I understand the immigrant hate. Earth’s population has more than doubled in my lifetime. “Who ARE all these people and why are they from another tribe?! It was already crowded!”
Only way we get over the hate ironically consists of two seemingly opposed plans:
- We need less people, or at least spread 'em out. Mammals get freaky when crowded.
- Get different sorts of people mixed up. People hate the idea of immigrants, “Meh, the ones I know are great people. It’s those others who are bad guys.”
We’ll get there. There have been massive strides in my lifetime alone.
Maeve@kbin.earth 4 days ago
We'll get there. There have been massive strides in my lifetime alone.
If we don't extinct ourselves and a bunch of other species, first. Maybe. The current race toward devolution gives me pause to doubt, however.
shalafi@lemmy.world 4 days ago
We’re not going extinct. Humans are the toughest beasts on the planet, the AR-15 of animals. Not the best at anything, not by a long shot, but we’re perfect multi-purpose lifeforms. Hell, we survive in every ecosystem on Earth. Insects can’t even claim that!
But yeah, I’ve commented enough in the past on what we’re taking out with us. Lived through seeing 73% of animals go POOF! since 1970, seen my local ecosphere crashing out over the last 5. I want to cry and scream! And no one is aware. When I talk about it IRL, people are captivated, “You’re right. Hadn’t noticed that. Wow.” You can see their gears turning, truly a new thought.
Maeve@kbin.earth 4 days ago
We're not going extinct. Humans are the toughest beasts on the planet, the AR-15 of animals. Not the best at anything, not by a long shot, but we're perfect multi-purpose lifeforms. Hell, we survive in every ecosystem on Earth. Insects can't even claim that!
I do believe climate science. And I do think a nuclear world war would decimate humans. I do hold hope, and recognize very real potentialities.
You can see their gears turning, truly a new thought.
And right back to football, video games, occasionally maybe standing somewhere publicly with a clever sign.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 4 days ago
There’s no logical difference?
My particular health risks would beg to differ.
There’s differences, but basiing your ooi ion of someone on their race (bigotry and racism) is “philistine, backward thinking”.
shalafi@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Got me there! I was referring to the previous post saying we’re so genetically tight as to be scientifically indistinguishable as “races”. But yeah, a couple of base pairs coding for a misfolded protein is certainly a difference!
Peasley@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Our modern concept of race was invented in 1684 by this guy:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/François_Bernier?wprov=sfla…
It’s been utter bullshit from the start
thoon@feddit.nl 4 days ago
Of course he was fr*nch
arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
I'm ngl he looks exactly like what I expected.
Sergio@lemmy.world 4 days ago
omg he’s even got a fedora… gotta be a hoax…
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 4 days ago
"Our"
I've ever only seen Americans and random racists use the term that way. Most of us agree that we're one race.
Maeve@kbin.earth 4 days ago
Are you kidding? I've heard Scots and English vilely denegrate Welsh, Germans denegrate Saxons, English denigrate black people...on and on and on.
shalafi@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Black people denigrating blacker people, Indians denigrating darker Indians, and so on. Yeah, we’re tribal, evolved that way.
These people all bent over the word “race”. Meh. Give it a rest. The word used to be in common parlance, now I never here it IRL, despite being told us Southerners are the most racist people on Earth.
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 4 days ago
Might be a German thing, but race and racist don't have the same base for nothing. You don't talk like that here and I've only heard it in the us. Maybe Scots bite their tongue taking to a German about those things.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 4 days ago
Hahahahahaha, that’s some funny shit right there.