Permiso?
Hi folks, I don't want to overstep my boundaries here as a new poster and i apologize for responding to this thread as it dies out , much to everyones relief i'm sure, but i just can't miss butting in on a thread about "race" (or perhaps which turned into one)
I'd just like to say that, without seeming like a new-age hippie, that race simply does not exist! It is an invention of men.
"Race" is a man made ideology (that has no place in nature) which never entered the minds of folks until the last several hundred years. Physical diversity is the only thing that exists. The reasons for the diversity are many, mostly- geographic isolation/mixing and climatic reasons. The physical changes that one encounters as one travels from place to place in the old world is a simple continuum which is totally innocent of any "racial" label that so-called scientists would attempt to apply.
In our genes, we all posess small variations that over long periods of time could reproduce all of the so called "races" given the right sets of circumstances. Actually, i'll have to confess that i can't back this up, it is speculation based on certain things i've come to realize.
If you look in populations of any of the so-called original races you can find people with facial morphologies that match members of other "races". Don't believe me? Try it! Start studying people's faces that you see everyday and forget everything you thought you knew about race and you'll soon realize what a big farce the whole thing is.
Genetics prove nothing either. The science's that supposedly prove race are a mismatched, jumble of arbitrary double standards which are all far too subjective to prove anything. For something to be a "science" it simply cannot be so subjective.
Race is a neat, clean ideology for fake scientists and their followers to cram the worlds populations into ridiculous non-existant categories so that they can sleep better at night believing they don't have someones blood they don't like in their own veins! Nature and life are not so simple unfortunately and the reality is that such categories are never going to explain the complex myriad of differences and similarities that exist between everybody.
The sooner we all start giving up the fake ideology of race and realize its all in our heads the sooner "racial" problems will dissappear (not that i'm saying atrocities in the name of race should be forgotten) , and we can go back to hating and killing each other for more rational reasons.
Culture is the only thing of any signifigance which identifies people.
Please forgive the longwinded rant, and in case it seemed i thought i was stating hard facts, these are all just my opinions!
el Saraceno