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The word "race" as I see used in everyday life, particularly in the media, refers to a way of categorizing people based on similar physical characteristics. It also refers to the culture or identity of a people. By merely knowing one's race, people can affix several meanings to that person's background. Race seems to be a very crucial part of the formation of ones identity. There is also more of a tendency to describe culture in terms of race. For example, there is a "Black culture" or "Latino culture" in the United States that can be easily described. This culture, however, is not just dependent on race alone.
When anthropologists say that races are not biologically real, they reject the idea that humans can be divided into biologically distinct groupings or races (Mukhopdhyah and Henze 2005). The biological characteristics used to define races rely only on a few superficial genetic traits such as hair texture and skin color and ignore other major parts of variations in......

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