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Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS
The term is actually "social construction." It should mean to Ch2tf what it means to everyone, regardless of how the definition is worded:
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I interpret this as an indirect insult. Did I word that correctly, if so, you should know what I mean?
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Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS
Constructs like race are not biological but are instead social designations and result in certain social interactions and meanings. We create meaning in our observed differences between people and exaggerate whatever differences there are.
As Luther said "a chair is still a chair, even if there's no one sitting there" because we decided that there is a such thing as a "chair."
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Luther's song was a good analogy for what it seems like you are saying.
From your idea of Social designations/Social construction, this means a persons race can change randomly, even within a ten year period depending on other factors.
I do a lot of traveling and I am constantly learning things which gives me a different social outlook to life and the people I meet in this life. Is my race determined by my exaggerated differences in others? If so, I am very mixed up...LOL
Suppose I am an adaptable person who pretty much becomes, with no problems at all, a part of any culture I am in the company of for long periods of time. What if I am a Nomad who does not really have a place to call home? Home would be basically where I unpack my things at once I arrive and where ever I arrive, the people are always very much so different from me, yet I manage to blend in?
"a chair is still a chair, even if there's no one sitting there"
"a Negro is a Negroe, even when he has went to Harvard"
No matter what, he will never change because his physical characteristics tells a story about him.
If the chair is made of material lets say wood and no one is sitting in the chair, for what ever reason, the chair can be chopped up and used for firewood. Before it was a chair, it was a pile of cut up trees.
The Negro will be and was always a Negro.