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by ClumsyPilot 1173 days ago
Indeed, is my problem with American racial discourse too - once you dig beyong sufrace level, it's inconsistent and primitive.

Whether left or right, their concept of ethnicity is primitive. white/black/asian.

Are Russians same ethnicity as Germans? Are Germans same ethnicity as Bavarian? Russian government considers Russia to have ~100 ethnic groups native to Russia.

Us discourse is either about skin-colour, or about man-made country borders.

The only scientifically based concept is Haplogroups, bur noone knwos about them.

The rest is man-made concepts and culture.

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>Whether left or right, their concept of ethnicity is primitive.

>The rest is man-made concepts and culture.

You got to it at the end. There’s nothing about any of it that is scientific, it’s all just culture.

The reason why it’s “primitive” in America is because that is what is true in the American context. It just doesn’t map to the European context.