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[–]Realwoman 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yep, race is also very subjective and not a scientific category. It's a huge generalization of people of common ancestry but what is considered white in America has changed and it Alsop varies around the world. "Mixed race" people also exist and they're just regular people, not a disorder. How do you classify them, in the US the rule was even one black ancestor, and it means you're black but what if that ancestor was 5 generations ago? In South Africa, mixed people are called coloured, and in America, they're black.

Sex, on the other hand, is a scientific term, it applies to all of the human race, actually all mammals, it's easy to define and the few cases where there might be confusion, are medical disorders. Sexes are different in very specific ways and those differences are universal among all cultures.