To my understanding race means subspecies but people incorrectly use the term as colloquialism for ethnic group and the term ethnic group refers to people who have distinguishing features either mutually exclusive to or highly correlate within a group of people but does not dictate a separate species/subspecies. To my understanding as well no biological subspecies/race actually occurs within humans since we're the last of the genus homo or something and cause visual features don't dictate different physical, behavioural, or mental differences (disregarding social influences depending on morality during said time period) between people (like all labradors having the same average intelligence and physical ability + mentality).
I've recently learned that sickle cell is wrongfully used as an example for why race exists but I'm not well versed in biology or anthropology to confidently explain why (I THINK it's because it only occurs within a certain group of a certain group and because there's 2 types and the majority of people with it have the type that makes them hosts and not victims so it's merely a disease and not a biological disease since there's other people around the globe with it and saying it's grounds for proving separate races is as silly as saying hosts of HIV are a separate race or skin colour has correlation with said disease but it isn't causation or something idk).
tl;dr my understanding is biological races don't exist within mankind, however, lots of people try to claim there is and use pseudo-science to try and make blatant hatred for people acceptable.
If anyone wants to correct me I'm more than willing to listen to criticism; I've learned everything from the internet so I'm not basing my opinion on anything but my own research and understanding.
I've recently learned that sickle cell is wrongfully used as an example for why race exists but I'm not well versed in biology or anthropology to confidently explain why (I THINK it's because it only occurs within a certain group of a certain group and because there's 2 types and the majority of people with it have the type that makes them hosts and not victims so it's merely a disease and not a biological disease since there's other people around the globe with it and saying it's grounds for proving separate races is as silly as saying hosts of HIV are a separate race or skin colour has correlation with said disease but it isn't causation or something idk).
tl;dr my understanding is biological races don't exist within mankind, however, lots of people try to claim there is and use pseudo-science to try and make blatant hatred for people acceptable.
I read a study on a website (I don't remember what it was) that claims that we all feel less sympathy for people who don't belong to our "race" which is trying to support the idea that there are separate races and that we're all naturally racist since we don't feel empathy towards them; I'm pretty sure those surveyed were American and not to insult anyone, however, the AVG American is both the most outspoken on the subject of race and the least knowledgeable of the subject. Things that the study found were people apparently assume black people don't cry or feel pain towards stubbed toes etc. which to me just says that the people surveyed are stupid as shit and have never spoken to nor know how to interact with people who don't look like them and the data shows more of a concern with how the citizens of America understand one another than that people are naturally bigots.
If anyone wants to correct me I'm more than willing to listen to criticism; I've learned everything from the internet so I'm not basing my opinion on anything but my own research and understanding.
