>>12894408Race is stabilized group of genes and many iterations of people presenting them.
Osho would say Aryans were just one family. I don't know shit about Aryans but the idea is sound.
One group developed in some type of fashion and propagated, then they were classified.
The more mutations and mixtures happen, the more this definition gets obscured, which is where nationalism or more secular identities get created.
New identities have certain things they incline towards, in part due to genes in part due to environment. Then representatives either pop up or are engineered to act as a banner for the group to look up to or adhere to.
So you "can't define race" the same way you can't define anything. But at some point once something is stable enough with enough propagation and similarity, it will be categorized.
Even the body itself will do this, like how a dog may not like a particular skin color representative if one person sharing that skin color had abused it.
We make up a definition at some point. Given certain scenarios that require tribalism, the body and brain will decide who it decides to be tribal with.
Usually "things that look like me" end up being what you become tribal with. The more you're able to expand on that, the more strength in numbers you have.
"Things that sound like me" can also be an identifier, such as nationalism or shared language. People will choose various reasons to pair.
It generally becomes relative to how different an out-group is relative to your own personal values and whatnot.
So it really depends on how you want to define "is race real". People will make it real. It's real if you believe it.
Of course, we still find interest and kinship among things that are "not like us" as well.
Different expressions have their own virtues. It depends on the established values and the environment that expects certain traits to be..valued.
I'd be happy to get into IQ as well if you wish.
