[librasoul22]

Originally posted by RUgreek


No, I think that disease argument is b.s. too. We have Tay-Sachs, maybe it's more prevalent, but I don't think that your race centers around diseases you are more susceptible to.

I must not be saying this properly because a lot of you aren't seeing this point the way I am. People attach stereotypes to certain races, let's start with that. Jews have big noses, Irish red hair, African-Americans have dark black skin, Asians have small squinty eyes, you see where I'm going with this? Now, those stereotypes are specifically linked to a race for that individual. Now, all I'm trying to say is when someone looks at you, they judge you as a certain race, whether you've checked it off on a box or not. That's the biological basis for race, what you see as the external features of a person.

Does that help at all?


RUgreek

Ok...I am understanding this post better than past ones. I think you are confusing a BIOLOGICAL FACT with someone else's PERCEPTION. Just because you see those physical facets and attribute them to a certain type of person doesn't mean that the trait is BIOLOGICAL. It simply means that you are guilty of generalization. BIOLOGY is specific scientific evidence, not what a laymen may use as classification.