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It was once believed that our DNA could sort us into categories like the “five races:” African, European, Asian, Oceania, and Native American. But a report in Scientific America stated that "today, the mainstream belief among scientists is that race is a social construct without biological meaning." As a result, "ethnicity" is a better word to use than "race".<ref>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/race-is-a-social-construct-scientists-argue/</ref> | It was once believed that our DNA could sort us into categories like the “five races:” African, European, Asian, Oceania, and Native American. But a report in Scientific America stated that "today, the mainstream belief among scientists is that race is a social construct without biological meaning." As a result, "ethnicity" is a better word to use than "race".<ref>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/race-is-a-social-construct-scientists-argue/</ref> | ||
Genetic studies have shown that there is more genetic diversity within various "races" than there is between the "races". In fact, there is not a single absolute genetic difference between the perceived races, for example, where all Africans have one variant and all Europeans another one. In fact, there is so much variation within "racial" groups that two people of European descent may be more genetically similar to an Asian person than they are to each other.<ref>https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2017/science-genetics-reshaping-race-debate-21st-century/</ref> | Genetic studies have shown that there is more genetic diversity within various "races" than there is between the "races". In fact, there is not a single absolute genetic difference between the perceived races, for example, where all Africans have one variant and all Europeans another one. In fact, there is so much variation within "racial" groups that two people of European descent may be more genetically similar to an Asian person than they are to each other. | ||
Scientific evidence has shown that humans are fundamentally more similar than different from each other. Though physical differences between ethnic groups may appear, on a superficial level, to be very dramatic, they are determined by only a minute portion of the genome: humans as a species have been estimated to share 99.9% of our DNA with each other. | |||
Nonetheless, racism has persisted. Scientific findings are often ignored, or otherwise actively misinterpreted and misused to further racist agendas of extreme political groups.<ref>https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2017/science-genetics-reshaping-race-debate-21st-century/</ref> | |||
==5. The cultural differences make interracial marriage wrong because the couple will be incompatible== | ==5. The cultural differences make interracial marriage wrong because the couple will be incompatible== | ||