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Originally posted by librasoul22
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.
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Someone's biological background or origin creates those physical attributes. If you did not have the dark skinned relative, then you would not have it yourself. Someone's perception is not based wrongly just because it is a generalization. If a person sees a physical characteristic only associated with a certain racial or ethnic group, a characteristic specifically found within that group, yea it's a cheap generalization, but it only exists in that person because it was passed to them biologically. You can't inherit this type of feature through any other means, except for being born with it.
Doesn't that mean that someone born with certain traits that they are part of a certain race as a biological fact? If something is real and exists, doesn't that make it a fact?
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