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[–]proc0 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Same culture, not same race. "Race" is incorrectly used by 99.99% percent of people. As an example Obama is half-white, half-black, yet he is considered black. That makes no sense. If we used "race" correctly Obama would always be referred to as mixed race and would never be claimed by black people. If we used "race" properly, we would have to memorize 20+ categories if we wanted to guess at first glance what someone is.

[–]FullBloodedWhiteMale[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I get your point...on the other hand, (more of a question), many blacks may have white ancestry. Look at some blacks, like Obama, he doesn't look 100% black. And, I've read the reason African American average IQ is 85 and not 70 as is the average IQ of sub saharan Africans is because many African Americans have white in them. Again, this is something I've read; I don't know for a fact.

If Obama is tecnically mixed race as you descibe and both of Michelle's parents are black, are his kids mixed race or black? I don't know.

Still, If I could come up with a definition of white, I'd use those people whose ancestors lived in Europe 500 years ago. This isn't a perfect definition for the same reasons above - race mixing generations ago.

[–]proc0 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Literally everyone is mixed to some extent, if not in the past 100 years, then in the past 5000 years. Latin Americans are literally a mixed race that did not exist even 500 years ago. 'White' people are a melting pot of European races, many of which mixed with Middle Eastern and Asian people. What current day Americans think of "white" and "black" is a product of American culture over the past 200 years, and in my opinion the only reason skin color aligns is because people subconsciously label themselves as part of their preferred "team". In other words, in America, racial lines are self-enforced. People are perpetuating the racial divide (especially leftist Democrats) exactly along the cultural line (i.e. by shaming those who don't conform, i.e.i.e. Kanye West).

[–]FullBloodedWhiteMale[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I can't completely disagree with what you wrote. Still, we have affirmative action, quotas, bonus SAT points, and racial preferences - all based on race.

We have HUGE socioeconomic delimiting data, based on race: truancy, HS drop out rate, teen pregnancy, fatherless families, CRIME, etc.

There many physiolgoical, biological differences in races: Average IQ, temperament, age at first menstruation, likelihood to have twins, likelihood to have head lice, immunity from various diseases, tolerance to some foods/alcohol, bone density, heart size, height, weight, etc.

We know most people prefer to date same race (we know this from dating site data and neighborhood choices for home buying/renting).

85% of churches are 90% or more same race.

People prefer to live around, go to school with, socialize with, be served by, and marry people of the same race.

In a 2014 survey, the Public Religion Research Institute found that the average white American has 91 white friends, one black friend, one Latino friend, one Asian friend, one mixed-race friend, one friend of an “other” race and three friends of unknown races.

The average African-American has 83 black friends, eight white friends, two Latino friends, no Asian friends, three mixed-race friends, one friend of an “other” race and four friends whose races are unknown.

Further, 75 percent of the whites interviewed in the study had no friends of other races. Among black respondents, nearly 66 percent had no friends of other races.