Re: What Melting Pot Groups are there?
In the cited quote, you mentioned Native Americans (a common racial designator) as genetically closer to Asians (another racial designator) than Europeans (another racial designator). In actuality, any given Native American may be closer, genetically to any given European than any given Asian. Hence, your statistical 'genetically closer' racial comment is only a statistical exercise and not indicative of any real-life comparison.
I hope this fully explains my previous comment.
Race is NOT defined by genetics! In other words, if I give you a person's DNA, you cannot determine the 'race' of that person (though you may make some statistical guesses). Ethnicity, however, is defined by both race and culture.
This entire thread about melting pot 'groups' is Lewis Carrollian mental gymnastics. In an actual melting pot, the components blend into a rather homogenous alloy - and that's all I ever see, after the melting.
Originally posted by Kaonohi
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I hope this fully explains my previous comment.
Race is NOT defined by genetics! In other words, if I give you a person's DNA, you cannot determine the 'race' of that person (though you may make some statistical guesses). Ethnicity, however, is defined by both race and culture.
This entire thread about melting pot 'groups' is Lewis Carrollian mental gymnastics. In an actual melting pot, the components blend into a rather homogenous alloy - and that's all I ever see, after the melting.
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