# Color vs. Race

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-vs-race/346758>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [March 2, 2006, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-vs-race/346758 "2006-03-02T15:13:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2006, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-vs-race/346758/21 "2006-03-04T08:15:40Z")

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Try [this test](http://www.pbs.org/race/002_SortingPeople/002_00-home.htm) on the PBS site for _Race - The Power of an Illusion_. I’m sure you will do better than I did at identifying grooups by appearance. Very good site.

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**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2006, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-vs-race/346758/22 "2006-03-04T16:16:00Z")

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[QUOTE=pool]  
It wasn’t until I started coming to this board that I had ever heard that there is no biological basis for race.  
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Yes, race is a historical construct, although within its _original_ bounds is has some validity (which is to say, certain groups of people are somewhat more closely related to each other). Although of course, ethicism and racism were present early on, the historians who developed the idea were not _per se_ particularly racist.

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**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2006, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-vs-race/346758/23 "2006-03-04T20:30:08Z")

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[QUOTE=don’t ask]  
Try [this test](http://www.pbs.org/race/002_SortingPeople/002_00-home.htm) on the PBS site for _Race - The Power of an Illusion_. I’m sure you will do better than I did at identifying grooups by appearance. Very good site.  
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Wow, I did a lot worse at that than I thought going in. The trickiest part for me was deciding who belongs to Latino/Hispanic category. Some people’s self-identification flies in the face of what others tend to think.

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**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2006, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-vs-race/346758/24 "2006-03-04T21:06:25Z")

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Having looked at that…

Those are small pictures. I couldn’t even sure which ones were _female_.

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