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Originally Posted by raveneye
Another pertinent point that needs to be made in any discussion of AA: "race" per se is nonexistent. Researchers in the field of human evolution have rejected the entire concept of "race" as applied to human biology.
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Biology is ignorant of psychology. If you want to eliminate the concept of race because some biologists claim it doesn't exist, you're more than welcome. You are of course wrong, but that much would be obvious by walking down the street. To humor you for a brief moment, however, the claim that races do not exist on a biological level is questionable. The evidence that demonstrates such a claim to be false is apparent in the field of medicine which shows that some races are more suseptible to certain health problems than others. But again, biologically defined race is entirely irrelevent. We're talking about psychology. Psychologically, race exists and racism exists.
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So racial diversity is really just diversity in some superficial human traits that somebody recently decided are important.
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Nonsense. Racial diversity is not superficial and it quite clearly is not some "recently decided" important aspect of society. Racial diversity is extremely important for racial tolerance. One need only look back through history to recognize that many decisions have been based on race. They had this thing called slavery for centuries and centuries.
I'm all for cultural diversity. But I don't see how one can ignore racial diversity as a driving factor in cultural diversity. On average, a white male in his 30's has FAR more in common with the average white male in his 30's than he does with the average black woman in her 30's.