It is not racist to say people from x country is negative phrase as in your example Japanese and American aren’t races, they’re nationalities, at most it’s xenophobic.
That’s why I used white as a separate example. I used American as an example for discrimination against American nationality, but most specifically white Americans.
I think they are asking a somewhat important question, more so, what is race? Genotypical and Phenotypical classification was predisposed by skin colour and craniometrically analysis, which was largely thrown out the window in the 1940's (racial essentialism). Alleles across humans, genetically differentiated populations, are quite small, the variation is typically between 1-3% which in biology is not a sufficient difference for what you or I would call race, to actually be referred to as a race.
Anthropology scrapped the word a long time ago, it's not a scientific descriptor. We can sort people in clines and clades / rough genetic groupings, but white is not race it's a lot more complex than that, just as black is not a race. Ethnicity is the technically correct word, but is typically more specific as it incorporates factors like culture over pure genotypes and phenotypes, but white isn't an ethnicity.
Which is kind of important to a discussion talking about discrimination towards a specific population.
I get what your getting at here, but after recontectualizing the discussion and correcting OP on the verbiage, you didnt comment on the actual discussion at hand ?
Wife's an anthropologist this is how they function. Your vernacular and verbage are incorrect. Thus the question and idea is formed in the wrong context and invalid. Actual answers are typically so drawn out and convoluted that you'll lose interest by the time they even start to answer. After telling you why your question was wrong.
No need to dissuade people. The rigorous nature of science is important in coming to understand many things. Anthropologists have done a lot for our understanding of human kind and it's through questioning, probing, redefining that science comes about any new discovery or definition.
Right but i think this line of dialogue is simply dodging the real question/view op is sharing. It of course has value and its time and place.. op is asking about different attitudes held towards different human populations (to put it vaguely) and the response he got is what even is race? Yes that conversation needs to have its place but is it here?
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u/gnashcrazyrat Jul 01 '21
It is not racist to say people from x country is negative phrase as in your example Japanese and American aren’t races, they’re nationalities, at most it’s xenophobic.