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To: aladin who wrote (96665)	1/25/2005 9:14:39 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793690

somehow in your version of '60's hell no one can mention the word race. Your like an inverted KKK on this. Most people that we refer to as blacks in the United States are of mixed ancestry. Tiger Woods has ancestry from Europe, Asia, Africa and who knows where else. It has been conjectured that five percent of the world's male population has the "Y" chromosome that comes from a single person in Asia (most likely Ghengis Khan). If you try to define the races in sociological terms, a lot of people would not fit. You can't do it by physical attributes either because there is a lot of overlap. You couldn't do it by geography as it would become absurd to put blond haired, blue eyed people from South Africa into the same grouping as people that look like Nelson Mandela. You would have to do it by mixing physical attributes, ancestry, and geography. There is no way to group people scientifically. And, it would be very difficult to so on a legal basis. Okay, so you do it sociologically. It may be useful to do that - but you have to understand the limitations.

To: aladin who wrote (96665)	1/25/2005 9:26:37 AM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 793690

Ok you win - somehow in your version of '60's hell no one can mention the word race. Your like an inverted KKK on this. Race is more a sociallogical construct than a genetic one. It's an artificial construct not unlike the artificial ME national boundaries set up by the Brits. It doesn't have sufficient utility IMO to compensate for the problems it causes. We can accomplish what you want by referring to tribe or ethnicity. These are familial groupings that may have unique genetic markers. Putting people into a half dozen huge and imprecise big boxes that we realign periodically for political purposes isn't really helpful for medical purposes.