[simianwords]

> I think what its trying to say is race as a defined biological categorisation

Proof? What do you think the people were asked in the survey? Normal people use race in the normal way. I think white people exist. I think black people exist. Everyone knows this - I don't need any academic to prove me wrong.

And I don't think it makes me racist when some one asks me "are there different human races" and I answer "yes".

[olelele]

skin color does not equal race. The US is really weird to me in that regard.

[simianwords]

I didn't say it did? Skin colour correlates highly with race. Skin colour is a good predictor of one's self identified race.

[oezi]

Sorry, but most Europeans don't use the term anymore since the Nazis tried to impose a catastrophic societal order based on their race ideology.

White people were only white if they could show bloodlines reaching back generations. One jewish great-grandfather would make you intelligible for the Arian race. They would laugh at your notion of white vs black.