Re: Kling of KKKrap

From: Bob LeChevalier (lojbab_at_lojban.org)
Date: 09/10/04 

Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 10:02:17 -0400

"P.Comm" <tjsrno@spampost.com> wrote:
>"Bob LeChevalier" <lojbab@lojban.org> wrote in message
>news:m4p1k0l6ogv6q54lllgvn6cvin2u9ahe9c@4ax.com...
>> is a reference to the hypothetical geography of the ancestry and not
>> to race.
>>
>> >I call them "Oriental" or "Mongoloid".
>>
>> But that isn't meaningful.
>
>SOCIALLY it is. SOCIALLY no one refers to Denish Desouza as "Asian."

The claim is that the scientific article is referring to races.
Science doesn't care much about social races. Your frequent cite of a
human ancestral tree does not conform to social races, and does not
clearly divide in accordance with the features generally used to
categorize people socially.

lojbab 

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