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yardwork Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-23-04 03:41 PM
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68. There is no biological foundation to the idea of "race"
All humans are very closely related to one another, far more so than other primates. Not only are we all the same species, we are all the same sub-sub-species, if you follow me.

There is so much similarity in human DNA, in any random matching an "African-American" might have DNA more similar to a "European-American" than the "European-American" would to another "European-American." There is virtually no diversity in the human genome. We are all apples - no oranges.

There are very real cultural differences between people, and some people correlate color of skin or religion with those cultural differences. To each his own, but I never use the term "race" because it doesn't exist in human terms.
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