Thread: Humans vary biologically, but race is a social construct

Originally Posted by Thatperson

I think you are in the minority, even on dreamviews in not believing race exists.

From my experience, within present-day academia, especially in the field of anthropology, the term "race" has been retired since the human genome project influenced a global consensus on how "the simple biological notion of race is wrong." As juoara mentioned in another thread,

Originally Posted by juroara

the term you want to use is ethnicity!

The connotations of "race" are too deeply rooted to naive biological notions. "Ethnicity" better reflects the social construct we wish to communicate.