Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.heimat.gr.jp!taurus!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!news.zanker.org!news.cs.univ-paris8.fr!proxad.net!193.252.118.146.MISMATCH!news.wanadoo.fr!news.wanadoo.fr!not-for-mail Reply-To: "b" <...> From: "b" Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan,sci.lang.japan References: <41836fbb$0$25056$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <2uhcn9F2b4v8dU1@uni-berlin.de> <2uit00F2b8qlvU1@uni-berlin.de> <3z%gd.35952$E93.23651@clgrps12> <4184c52d$0$3585$8fcfb975@news.wanadoo.fr> <2ul43qF29o3n6U1@uni-berlin.de> Subject: Re: Asians have hijacked Japanese study Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 23:52:15 +0100 Organization: ... X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Response Lines: 22 Message-ID: <41856c9e$0$24939$8fcfb975@news.wanadoo.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: ASt-Lambert-152-2-11-26.w82-120.abo.wanadoo.fr X-Trace: 1099263135 news.wanadoo.fr 24939 82.120.197.26:2437 X-Complaints-To: abuse@wanadoo.fr Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:20548 > From a scientific point of view, the human race is one of the most > homogenous on the planet. I was talking about applying to the notion of raciation applied to humans. Humans are a species, not a race. The concept of race is based on the notion that one can order humanity's genetic diversity. But this subdivision into "races" only takes into account a small aspect of mankind's genetic diversity. For instance, the genetic distance between two french populations is on average inferior only by 15 % to the genetic distance between two population taken at random in the world. the racial classifications that some people used ( are they still used in the US btw ? I've always found that rather shocking for a country which has invented political correctness) are not valid, unworkable and arbitrary. The concept of a "caucasian" race makes no more sense than a "red-haired" race, and in many ways each human, a unique combination of genes, is a self contained "race". b