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Hey don't you know, racial identity and assigned race at birth are two different things. That's why Reddit put perceived race and actual race /s.
Comment by Something22884 at 29/06/2020 at 23:39 UTC
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I know you're being facetious, but in many ways race really is a social construct. Of course people have different genetic backgrounds, but the way society does it is artificial. The peoples of Africa are more genetically diverse than the rest of the world combined. Genetically, they are further from each other than whites are from asians, yet we call them all one "race". Scientists have repeatedly said that there is no scientifically meaningful categorization as race.