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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: jbe who wrote (85137)8/9/2000 2:30:32 PM
From: cosmicforce  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
That's exactly what the commonly held perceptions of race are - based upon historical, 19th century imperialism. I'm not talking about sophisticated academic understandings that we have now, I'm talking about "race" as most people use it - the primary "usage-based" definition of race. I've already published that these terms are not even in scientific use anymore. It is 19th century and archaic. Ethnicity is closer to what I'm describing (place of origin) and, of course, is more fact based. Coloration is too obvious to ever go away completely. Though interracial crossing and international travel is blurring that line, too.

If someone was tending oxen in a field and lives in a hut, then you have a pretty good of how that person is living. Race is almost irrelevant. Now if I say an "American plastic surgeon, who makes $800k a year and lives in Palo Alto, CA", skin color is still almost irrelevant if you want to assess the general values, character and condition of that person. If I add "black" or "Asian", sure there is some additional information, but I think you have a pretty good idea of where either of the people in my examples are coming from and how they live without a racial or skin color reference.
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