[herbig]

Agreed.

"Dwarves are good at building things not because of some essential genetic racial qualities, but because they are raised in a culture that values building and passes on a certain set of traditional practices around it."

Dwarves (and Elves) can also see in the dark and can live for many hundreds of years. In many ways a character's race is a set of advantages derived from genetic qualities.

This isn't race in a human racial sense. The word "race" is used, when biologically speaking it should likely be species.