Ustwo, I recognized in my last post that it would be futile and truly a waste of my time to respond to you on this subject. There is no point, unless I enjoy banging my head on a brick wall. You are not going to change your opinion, I am not going to change mine. Others here have far more education, experience, and knowledge than I do on this topic, and I cannot say anything better than what has already been said, particularly by raveneye... and if you are not even listening to them, then I'm done.
I will respond to this, however:
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Originally Posted by Ustwo
I think you made up your mind on race, and your own mixed race heritage seems to be your blind spot. Because you do not belong to a race does not mean there are not races.
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I believed in race for a long time, because I didn't know any other way TO believe until I began to study social science. As a kid I marked "Asian," because growing up, that was my "minority" identity, and therefore advantageous... a very political thing, you must admit. Asking for people's race in a box, in order to decide how to dole out funds, IS a political question, far more than a scientific one (you don't see everyone in the US running to get their DNA analyzed before every census, at least not yet... if they do, now THAT would be very interesting).
I no longer mark Asian. I don't mark anything, because I am too many things. The fact is that ALL humans are "too many things;" if you get your DNA analyzed, you'll find that it's actually pretty difficult to mark one box, to the exclusion of all the other little pieces that make up your genetic code. There is no "cut point." There is no "pure" member of each "race." There are only different kinds of hybrids, mixed and mixed and mixed again.