Brian Ross wrote on Dec 22
nd, 2013 at 6:27pm:
Soren wrote on Dec 22
nd, 2013 at 6:15pm:
Except you (and Brain/Stavos/Tits and all the other indistinguishable, shocked and outraged aunties.)
You want to ignore the obvious differences as a matter of 'PC sensitivity'. A Dane looks nothing like a Nigerian or a Japanese. No matter what you say.
I am looking forward to your next idiotic squirming, Peckerhead. Here's a simple question, Pecker: can you tell a European from an African and from an East/South East Asian?
Superficial physical differences, the result of evolutionary adaptation to local conditions, nothing more, Soren. The result is different skin colouring, the shape of eyes or other things.
Deep down, at a genetic level, we are all the same. All the supposed "races" can and do interbreed. Nothing prevents that. Therefore, the emphasis on "race" that you and others place on it, is purely a social construction, Soren.
Social and cultural differences are crucial. There is evident correlation (not necessarily causation) between races and their social and cultural customs, traditions, etc.
Of course, just as there is social mobility within societies, there is mobility between races and cultures. That's the only reason we are talking about this.
Whose cultures and traditions ill be decisive when there is a conflict between, say, white Anglo-European Australian society and Arab Middle Eastern immigrant cultures? Or between Aborigines and Islanders?