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From: "John Yamamoto-Wilson" <j-yamamo@sophia.ac.jp>
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Kevin Gowan wrote:

> >"Yes" or "no" will do. Please tell me as quickly as possible because I
> >really need to know if "British" is a race. This is an emergency.

Mike Giggler replied:

> Yes it is.

> "many cultural anthropologists now consider race to be more a
> social or mental construct than an objective biological fact"

I replied:

> No, they're not a race (except insofar as they're part of the human race).

According to my server I beat Mike to it by 11 seconds. Hope you're not a
bad loser, Mike! ;-)
--
John
http://rarebooksinjapan.com