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There is no biological foundation to the concept of race. Race is culturally constructed. Saying otherwise is a conflation and misunderstanding the science. Talk to any modern biologist, anthropologist, behavioral scientist, or psychiatrist and they will tell you that peoples' skin color has absolutely no link to their behavior. A combination of peoples' lived experiences and upbringing, as well as a complex variety of sociocultural influences have an impact on their behavior, but skin color doesn't come into it at all.
Here's some suggested reading:
Misunderstanding of race as biology has deep negative biological and social consequences
A Qualitative Analysis of How Anthropologists Interpret the Race Construct
Racial Biology and Medical Misconceptions
Myth of race still embedded in scientific research, scholar says.
I'll choose to ignore your snark and engage with you seriously, because your misconception of race as biology is a very common one. It's a misconception that has been proven wrong over and over again. Race being culturally constructed does not prove a link between skin color and cultural behavior. In fact it proves the opposite.
If you genuinely care about this topic, I suggest you arm yourself with some scientific knowledge. Here's some more reading to add to my previous list:
There is No Biological Meaning for ‘Race’
Race Is Not Genetic
There Is No Such Thing as Race
this is some wild mental gymnastics, and misunderstands what you are being informed on. I also recommend you read the links you have been sent at the least before trying to discuss the intersection of skin color, race, culture, and behavior again.
please read about this topic like what the other user linked to you, i think it will help you understand why the conversation went how it did.
right now you mostly appear to be saying things that are doubly wrong, both not understanding what race means in the modern context (it's largely defined by skin color, and yes it's incorrect, and yes it's what you inadvertently reference by saying skin color = behavioral patterns) and making a false link between behavior and phenotypic traits like skin color.
again, please read about this topic from experts, you will have a much better time understanding the thing you said.
Holy fuck, please go outside. As a certified real black person I think you need to actually fucking touch some grass and meet some real black people.
Here's a video of me speaking just so you shut up.
If you learn about the world through shit like this it'd certainly explain the racism.
The Onion made a joke about this actually, Sale Of BET To White Supremacist Group Results In No Changes To Programming.
...and see what, exactly? That culture doesn't exist?
Why...should I care if you're black?
What shit? You mean Black Entertainment Television? TV for black people? Black culture?
Do you even know what you're trying to argue?
Yes lol.
Because I am a living counterexample to the idea that black people need to speak a certain way.
And Google's "privacy sandbox" is so private. C'mon lol. You gotta be either stupid or trolling.
Yes.
I see that engaging with you seriously was indeed pointless.
I suggest you read some books before spouting misinformation about things you clearly don’t understand.
I agree with you in the broadest sense and I think society needs to constantly and actively work to oppose racist and sexist biases in our society.
This is not a great context to ask but since you seem knowledgeable -- I always thought that some food sensitivities were generically linked, and related to ancestry. Stuff like being good or bad at digesting dairy or starch is related to where in the world your ancestors are from and what foods they cultivated.
So in this case wouldn't someone's skin color (and other features socially constructed as race) on average influence their behavior (what foods they prefer or avoid)?
That said, I know that racial stereotypes are NOT a substitute for actual medical diagnoses, or a reason to assume an individual's food preferences.
Feel free to point me to one of your sources if the answer is there and I just need to read more.
This one is a little challenging, and there’s not a ton of research out there, but food sensitivities/allergies aren’t caused by people’s ethnicity or background, but their allergies can be adaptations to environmental and sociocultural stimuli, which can be passed down through families, which could subsequently impact what food they decide to eat.
This article might help explain it better, but there’s a bit of a gap in the research into allergies and genetics, though I’m by no means an expert. Here’s a relevant quote: