Why does different races exist?
“Race” is a social concept, without any biological reality for humans. In every single physical trait of which I am aware, expression (like skin color, nose form, hair form blood group, alternate hemoglobin, and so forth) varies independently according to the selective forces that act upon each trait. The collection of physical traits that supposedly “define” races, turn out to be derived from the European age of exploration. Those “definitions” turn out to be descriptions of the prevailing physical types in each of the areas of Africa, the Americas and Asia first contacted by Europeans. These descriptions stuck, even though it became obvious that they really did not fit “all” Africans, or “all” Native Americans, etc. They were, though convenient means to sort people into “them vs us” groups and convenient to base policies of repression. These “racial classifications” do not even stay the same from one country to the next. In Brazil, “race” is based almost solely according to skin colo
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