West African brother speaks on ethnicity being a social construct

[Chillin]

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Is he cooking or not? The Yoruba example is interesting

 

[XuseenS]

Some ethnicities are just a collective name for a people group while others are genetically common. But I would say that most ethnicities are genetically linked

 

[daljirkadahsoon]

Nah this is a terrible argument

 

[The alchemist]

Using the social construct argument as a mechanism to explain a sense of superficiality and artificial engineering of the conceptions of the human condition is silly. We are humans and will always paint the colors of ethnography, cultural, and traditional signatures around our lives on top of the layers of reality. That said, "race," and ethnicity, a term with extremely wide definitions ad-hoc to the specific groups and conditions of what the parameters entail, are not equivalent when abstracted.

In truth, race as described in recent history through Western channels, using "Black" as the model, is unscaled in proportion to the so-called other races from Eurasia when measured through current genetic research. It's only based on continental phenotype assumptions, nothing that penetrates deeper with regard to understanding or true approximate correspondence.

But anyone who mentions social constructs usually subscribes to a philosophical stance that does not respect rooted claims. They delve into philosophical semantics with the veneer of touching ground. It's not intelligent.