Quote: the G-man said: I suppose one could argue that, if race is a "fallacy," so isn't ethnicity or nationality.
Quote: Wednesday said:How in the name of Allah did you make that jump?
It was a half hearted attempt to get this thread back on topic.
If the differences in genetics between "races" are so insignificent to constitute a "fallacy," and if nationality and ethnicity are basically subsets of a race (ex: Italians, Irish and WASPS are nationalities that are part of the "white" race), then it stands to reason that the genetic differences between nationalities and ethnic groups are so small as to all be a "fallacy."
On face, I don't think that's accurate.
There are documented cases of members of certain ethnic groups contracting illnesses specific to their ethnicity (and so, presumably specific to their genetics).
Is it also not true that blacks are suspectible to certain conditions that others are not (e.g., certain kinds of anemia)?
These examples, while not supporting a theory of racial differences, do support a theory of some kind of ethnic differences based on genetics, no?
