How Genetics Is Changing Our Understanding of ‘Race’

Re:How Genetics Is Changing Our Understanding of ‘Race’ by Hayman on Friday March 23, 2018 @04:05PM (#16662177)

your second assumption is false because the idea of race is a relatively recent phenomenon.

If you read any of the old Roman texts, you would not find reference to race rather you would find references to a person's ethnicity. Ethnicity is tied to culture and language.

It is only controversial when you have what is the far right using Mott and Bailey arguments to justify racism.

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Re:How Genetics Is Changing Our Understanding of ‘Race’ by ardit33 on Friday March 23, 2018 @04:16PM (#16662273)

Wrong. Both In Greece and Rome black people were referred to as “Aethiopian,” regardless of their actual ancestry in Africa.

Black people were not excluded from any profession, and there was no stigma or bias against mixed race relationships in Antiquity.

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