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Originally posted by YouKnowYouWantIt!
...but that doesn't make the average individual more like the average individual of another ethnic group. If it were so, we wouldn't even have racial/ethnic groups.
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But..."race" is obviously a slippery Silly-Putty term that means different things to different people. It is almost always used in either of two ways: to stereotype a group by some perceivable difference (color, customs, clothing, etc.), so obviously if people weren't trying to demonize or ridicule other people?and normally this is done in light of the accusing group's low sense of self-esteem or fear of the other group gaining access to its limited resources or other perceived or presumed "territory" (taken in its broadest possible sense to mean space, jobs, sex partners, etc.).
It is not a term that actually MEANS something, or rather its meaning is not a definition in words, it's true meaning is what it is used to do, which is to hurt people or put them at a disadvantage somehow. (ref: Ludwig Wittgenstein's "language as game" theory).