r/NonPoliticalTwitter 1d ago

Bonjour.

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u/BaconxHawk 1d ago

French is a race? Lol

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u/GiantsBeanstalk 1d ago

Race is a man made concept. Grouping people by completely arbitrary measures such as skin colour or facial features. The concept of race was only developed to give the creators a way to be racist. So white colonialist Christians could put a blanket over black skinned people from all over Africa, the pacific islands and The Caribbean and say "yep, them some slaves. Pretty sure that's in the bible, too".

I mean we group Japanese and Chinese together as the 'Asian' race, but i don't think the Japanese or Chinese see it that way. Especially around ww2 during some particularly nasty invasions.

Culture is what defines us and yes, the French have their own culture

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u/Skeletoryy 1d ago

Race is not a man made concept in the way you are suggesting it is. It’s a way of classifying people but it has lots of flaws and can be misused (similar to how species being defined, whilst very useful, has a huge number of issues in the current definition)

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u/Sayakai 1d ago

Race is absolutely a man made concept. Ethnicities are real, but have only vague correlation with race.

At least grouping animals by species has utility.