What is Race?
The Infinite Monkey Cage
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Is There a More Wonderful Story Than Just Genetics?
We all have this romantic idea of our ancestry. We would like to be, as you said, i want to,. i want to be jewish. Why am i not jewish? Thes no, i would find it more wonderful and exciting if i were narrower in my genetic inheritance than i actually am. So the a need, a need to be in a group is not just a sort of, you know, a fashioned thing, or just, wouldn't it be nice? It's an absolute requirement for survival - at least in the ancestral setting that we've evolvedd. And so clearly, we should have a desire to do that, and also to form identities. I don
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