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"I Looked at the New US Food Guidelines And Something Doesn’t Add Up"
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One example; the messaging was: "We are ending the war on protein!".
Like there are not shelves stacked with products marketing "EXTRA PROTEIN".
Why is everything your administration does SO INCREDIBLY STUPID?
If you want to stay healthy, listen to specialists.
Do not listen to your administration, because they DON'T listen to specialists.
Your administration listens to lobbyists and people with brain-worms (literal or figurative).
The milk and meat lobby has significantly delayed and distorted public understanding
of the health risks of animal-product consumption, contributing to preventable disease.
Men can't even work anymore, they don't have the strength to lift things, they depend on machines, they can't think because their brains are malnourished. We need carbs and protein in our diets to get our humans back up to a level they can function. Weak people means weak country.
a food supplement, it would possibly be risky to use that in large quantities.
Products like protein bars and protein shakes are considered food in the EU,
not food supplements, so they should be safe.
I think the whole protein hype is nonsense. Our consumer information program "Keuringsdienst van waarde" (Inspection service of value) researched it and they conclude that almost everyone gets enough protein in their food. Only top athletes might benefit from same extra.
You're making a "Correlation–causation fallacy".
You are correct in thinking that sissy/weak men care about their health more,
but you are reversing the logic. It's not the healthy food that made them sissy/weak,
it's being sissy/weak that makes men care about their health.
Together with the manly culture of meat and BBQ, that makes you relate unhealthy food with "real men" and healthy food with "sissy/weak" men. That's irrational thinking.
Understand that there is lots of marketing behind the idea of manly men. They advertise it with a big hairy man, on his ranch, cutting up a dead animal, putting it on the grill, in a leather apron, covered in smoke, drinking beer, with his mates. And for a while, that's all a lot of fun, good eating, good times. But if that makes you eat unhealthy everyday, you end up fat, out of breath, with diminished heart function from blocked arteries, elevated cholesterol and hypertension, requiring medication with side-effects, possibly turning diabetic, and all medical bills associated with it. It was all very manly for a while, but it can turn that big burly man into a weakling, who cannot do his job anymore and probably dies before his retirement.
Is it manly, when he leaves his wife without his income and lots of medical debt?
Studies show that top athletes perform much better on a fully plant based diet, than on meat, even high quality unprocessed meat that is considered healthy. It takes more effort to balance a plant based diet, to compensate for some deficiencies (only Vitamin B12 cannot be compensated without supplements), but then it provides the body with a much more complete source of nutrients. It opens up all the arteries to utilize the full power of the heart, which make top athletes perform their best.
Actually that manly American food culture turns people malnourished.
All those jiggly asses you see walking around are STARVING for vitamins (Vitamin C, Vitamin E, Carotenoids), minerals (Potassium, Magnesium), fiber, anti-oxidants, healthy fatty acids, complex carbohydrates, prebiotics & gut-supporting compounds. They're not strong and tough, they're dying.
Of course, I'm not turning this knowledge into full practice. I still eat meat (but a bit less), because I like it. A long healthy life is not worth a lot, if you need to suffer every day to achieve it. I have no interest in sports, I just don't want to suffer illness and die young. That requires a healthIER diet and some exercise. That's not much of a sacrifice. A well-balanced diet is much more interesting than only hamburgers and steaks. I like variety and eating food from all over the world. Especially Asian countries have developed a diet that is both healthy and great in taste and variety.
“Variety’s the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavour.” — William Cowper
Irritable Male Syndrome
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The term irritable male syndrome (IMS) is used in scientific and popular texts to describe a pattern of irritability and mood changes linked to hormonal fluctuations in males. However, it is not an officially recognized medical diagnosis in major clinical classifications like the DSM-5 or ICD-11; it remains a descriptive concept rather than a standardized clinical condition.
I would say that irritable male syndrome is the clearest reason for the existence of MAGA that I ever heard. The whole movement is based on primitive gut feelings, that things in the US are not going well, without any rational thinking about the reasons for why things in the US are not going well. If you look at MAGA crowds, it's clear that ALL these men have some form of hormonal imbalance. Either they are testosteron bombs who are frustrated for women not being interested in them, or they are middle-aged men in their penopause.
That's all rational reasons to feel depressed about the state of THEIR country.
It's not your country, because your side has always hated America.
You want America to be like Putin's Russia and Erdoğan's Turkey.
Lets take a look at some apartments in new york.
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1750 a month
and then compare them to apartments in RUSSIA.
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750 a month, a 1000 dollars less than new york and MUCH larger in most cases.
NOW, Please remind me what political party has been running new york and for how long?
Oh,let me google that for you to save time
"City government is dominated by the Democratic Party, which also normally attracts majority support within the city in State, Congressional, and Presidential elections. The suffrage has been extended in stages since the founding of the state: African Americans (men only) received the vote in 1870 and women in 1920."
Democrats have been trying to make America in russia and theres the proof in those 2 links. looks nearly the same to me,except the democrats have got the cost much higher.Who struggles under the higher democrat prices in new york? the poor. DUH,
Moscow Average Annual: 1.25 Million RUB ($1,000+ monthly net).
Moscow Living Wage (Bachelor): RUB 75k-100k/month (approx. $800-$1,000 USD at recent rates).
In Summary:
Expect substantially higher dollar figures for salaries in New York, but factor in the much higher cost of living in NYC versus Moscow; however, even with cost adjustments, New York generally offers greater real purchasing power.
Give it a rest, Phart.
USD RUB
500 USD 39,000 RUB
1000 USD 78,000 RUB
2000 USD 156,000 RUB
5000 USD 390,000 RUB
Which relevant economic principle, that you have ever advocated for,
is championed by Russian politics and opposed by Democrats?
And how is that affecting rent prices for working class people?
In one post you are praising Russians for keeping rent low (which is nonsense,
if you consider their spending power) and in the other post you are accusing Democrats of trying to make America in Russia.
What is it?
Still, those Democrats did some things to keep rent prices from not escalating to even more ridiculous levels. Do you think that Republicans would have done anything?
Of course not, they would call that 'socialism' or 'communism'.
There are no capitalist solutions to a capitalist problem.
That's why the working class in New York voted for Zohran Mamdani.
You want America to be like Putin's Russia and Erdoğan's Turkey."
This is what got me comparing russia to the us, The rent is similar
Not being sent to die in a dictator's senseless wars is higher on my priority list.
I would assume he was a flight risk, But didn't get much punishment.
Good questions, Trump telling it like it is! Well a AI cartoon Trump,
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MORE good 1's like why can a woman abort a baby because she doesn't want the responsibility, but a man goes to prison if he doesn't pay child support?
The gender pay gap is real but Gender is not?
Elon ask a good 1 here, If genitals don't define gender,why does cutting them off affirm it?
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You're political side really has a disability to do humor.
You still don't understand the difference between sex and gender.
One is biological and the other is identity. That simple concept explains EVERYTHING.
And all those questions and jokes prove that this simple concept is too difficult for your side to understand. This indicates a general low IQ on your side of politics.
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They have no hearts and no brains, sounds just like a democrat to me!
But look at Republicans. Almost none of them agreed with tariffs and said nothing.
Most of them think that Trump is crazy to focus on Greenland, but they say nothing.
The only ones who say something are the ones who are not up for re-election anyway.
They are all jelly fish. The only one with some principles and half a spine is Rand Paul.
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(Unfortunately he often has a spine over the stupidest shit ever imagined)
My God how does a country function with people like this?
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and to think some of them come here and are part of our government!!
🔍 1. What This “Average IQ by Country” Data Actually Is
The WorldPopulationReview page you linked aggregates IQ estimates from various sources — especially the International IQ Test online platform and older datasets like those by Richard Lynn & David Becker — and presents them as “average IQ by country.”
However, it’s not original scientific research. It doesn’t collect truly representative, systematic data across whole national populations. Instead, it:
Uses voluntary online tests taken by internet users (self-selected samples).
Compiles and mixes data from multiple sources (some decades old) that use different methods and test types.
Often includes small sample sizes for many countries.
So the WorldPopulationReview figures are estimates or derived rankings, not rigorous scientific measurements of national intelligence.
📉 2. Problems With This Kind of Ranking
❌ Non-representative samples
Online platforms only include people who choose to take an internet IQ test. That group is typically:
More educated,
More urban,
More digitally literate,
… than the overall population. This skews results systematically.
❌ Varied test types & methodologies
Different IQ tests measure different skills (verbal, nonverbal reasoning, memory, etc.). Aggregating heterogeneous data without consistent norms makes comparisons unreliable.
❌ Sample size issues
Some low-population or low-internet-access countries might only have very few test-takers, invalidating the idea of an “average IQ.”
❌ Questionable historical sources
Datasets like the one by Lynn & Becker have been widely criticized by academic researchers for using unrepresentative data and for biases in how they estimate national IQs.
➡️ A recent critique argues that “national IQ” datasets do not provide accurate, unbiased, or comparable measures of cognitive ability worldwide due to methodological flaws like inconsistent sampling and test diversity.
🧠 3. What the Scientific Community Actually Says About Cross-Country IQ Comparisons
✅ IQ tests do measure certain cognitive skills
IQ tests can be useful in psychology to assess reasoning or problem-solving within well-standardized contexts.
⚠️ But conclusions about national differences are controversial
There is no scientific consensus that average IQ differences between countries accurately reflect innate intelligence differences. Environmental, social, and cultural factors play huge roles. For instance:
Education quality
Nutrition and health
Literacy
Socioeconomic status
Test familiarity
… all influence test performance and are not evenly distributed between countries.
Environment vs. innate differences
The mainstream view in intelligence research today emphasizes that environmental factors, not genetics, explain most group-level differences in IQ scores. Claims that genetic differences account for national IQ disparities are not supported by credible scientific evidence.
🧩 4. Other Explanations for Score Variations (Aside from “Smarter Countries”)
Here are important reasons why average IQ scores might differ — none imply one nationality is inherently more intelligent:
📊 Educational access and quality
Better schooling systems and early childhood education boost test-taking performance.
🍽 Nutrition and health
Early nutrition affects brain development; better diets often correlate with higher cognitive test performance.
📚 Literacy and test exposure
People familiar with testing formats and abstract reasoning tasks do better on IQ tests.
🌍 Cultural familiarity with test content
Even “culture-fair” tests can still favor certain ways of thinking or problem-solving.
🧪 Sampling bias
If only a subset of people in a country participates (e.g., mostly well-off, urban, educated), the “average” is skewed.
🧠 5. Should You Trust This Source?
WorldPopulationReview is not a peer-reviewed scientific source for IQ research. It’s a publicly accessible statistics site that compiles existing estimates without rigorous methodology.
It doesn’t ensure representative sampling,
It mixes diverse data sources, and
It does not conform to the standards you’d expect from academic research in psychology or psychometrics.
Therefore, the data can be interesting for informal comparisons but should be treated with strong caution — particularly when drawing conclusions about national intelligence.
📌 Bottom Line
✅ IQ testing can measure some cognitive skills.
⚠️ But country-level averages based on online, non-random samples are not scientifically robust.
❌ These rankings do not prove that some populations are inherently more intelligent than others.
📌 Factors like education, health, environment, and test-taking bias are huge contributors.
👉 In short: no — the “Average IQ by Country” list is not a scientifically valid or reliable measure of national intelligence.
Does that look like a group of smart people to you?
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can't even build bridges
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Your videos show people who are forced to do stupid things out of poverty and desperation. That is not evidence for their IQ.
Most flat earthers on the internet are Americans. Does that make all Americans stupid?
Are they forced to think stupid ideas?
The US faces significant challenges, ranking lower in international assessments (like 36th in literacy) due to large numbers of adults with low literacy skills (below 6th grade level) and lower educational attainment compared to top-ranking developed nations like Canada, Japan, and Ireland. (This last paragraph is not from me, but, the studies made by worldwide observations by researchers)
Another problem is the extreme hatred generated by a government bent on providing our Capitalist system fodder for its enrichment.
as an example of their low IQ.
Let's assess an example. India has the highest number of road deaths in the world, in terms of absolute fatalities. I saw the TV-show Deadliest Roads, where they followed a truck-driver, with the most beat-up truck you ever saw. He sat on a crate, because he had no seat, his steering had about half a rotation of play, his brakes hardly functioned, and he drove from early in the morning till late in the evening, along crumbling roads on the edge of deep drops. Phart would say that this truck-driver is absolutely crazy, and he must have a very low IQ. That assumes that the truck-driver doesn't understand his danger. The reality is that he knows exactly that he is risking his life every day, but he is working to feed his family. He doesn't make enough money to fix his truck. In other words; the system that he is living (and dying) under is FORCING him to ACT stupid. That's no reason to assume that he has low IQ.
Then I see lots of Americans ACTING stupid, like believing in obvious nonsense,
so I ask phart if they are forced to act stupid. If they are NOT, that's a good reason
to assume that they have low IQ.
Amartya Sen (Indian Nobel Prize winning economist): "People should be judged
by the options genuinely available to them, not by the outcomes they endure."
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As for the guy with the beat up truck in India,
I think he smart to be able to keep it running, that is a feat in it's self.
IT does beg the question though why other countrys like Japan and such can't send their older trucks there instead of scrapping a 50,000 mile truck for no reason, as they do daily.
However, it doesn't take much, to make a simple truck keep going forward.
Most scrappers in a scrap yard will be able to drive, with some tinkering.
The difference is that developed countries have standards for safety.
Your truck has other requirements than just the ability to go forwards.
Those requirements are for your safety as well as everyone else's on the roads.
That's why the US doesn't have the same rate of road deaths as India.
The reason for why so many 50,000 mile trucks end up in the scrap yard in the US:
1. Severe collision damage — Frame or structural damage makes repair unsafe or uneconomical.
2. Flood / water damage — Electrical systems become unreliable and uninsurable.
3. Insurance total-loss economics — Repair costs exceed vehicle market value.
4. Frame rust / corrosion — Structural rust fails inspections and can’t be economically fixed (regional: salt belt states).
5. Part-out value exceeds whole value — Truck is worth more dismantled than repaired.
6. Fleet write-offs — Companies retire vehicles for accounting or liability reasons.
7. Emissions or regulatory failure — Compliance cost exceeds vehicle value.
8. Theft recovery damage — Stripped or vandalized vehicles are too risky to repair.
9. Manufacturer buybacks / recalls — Rare safety or lemon-law removals.
(This ranking reflects real-world frequency)
Clarification: Most 50k-mile trucks that are “scrapped” are:
- Not mechanically worn out
- Often drivable
- But, removed due to economic or safety reasons
Nurses walking off their jobs in the middle of winter during flu season. people whine about health care cost, doesn't matter if it's free or a million bucks if the damn nurses aint there to work!, Shame on them,
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a nurse anymore. Unions are just a way for employees to organize themselves,
so they can demand respect from their employer. Why do you hate that so much?
Why do you always fight for the powerful to exploit the powerless?
Don't you think that the little guy has been exploited enough already?
Besides ,being a nurse, a dr,or a teacher is a calling to do better for your neighbor ,it's not supposed to make you a millionaire, it's supposed to better your community
The strike isn’t just about higher pay (though that’s part of it). It’s a broad labor action driven by multiple long‑standing workplace and patient‑care concerns.
Here’s what the nurses are striking for:
-Safe staffing levels: Nurses want limits on how many patients one nurse is expected to care for at a time, so care is safer and less exhausting. Many say chronic understaffing threatens patient and worker safety.
- Workplace safety protections: They’re demanding stronger measures to protect against violence from patients or visitors, a significant and growing concern on hospital units.
- Healthcare benefits: The union says hospitals have resisted guaranteeing full healthcare coverage for nurses and are proposing changes that could reduce benefits.
- Wages/Pay: Nurses also want pay that better reflects their workload and the high cost of living in NYC, though the precise numbers being discussed are disputed between unions and hospital management.
What triggered the strike now?
Contracts for nearly 15,000 nurses at major New York private hospitals (like Mount Sinai, Montefiore, and NewYork‑Presbyterian) expired December 31, 2025, and months of negotiations failed to resolve core issues before the nurses formally walked out in early January 2026.
So that's why they did that "in the middle of winter during flu season".
Yes, "it's supposed to better your community", that's mostly the reason for their strike.
If these jobs are not supposed to make anyone a millionaire, then why do allow them under private ownership, which is exactly intended to enrich the owners.
You are literally telling me that education and healthcare should be exempt from
private wealth creation, while you always argue that they should be privately owned.
Did you not even think of that, before you wrote it?
But to me for those folks to strike when people need them the most,they are putting lives at risk,that is uncalled for.
If folks die because they don't receive proper care,it is not the hospitals fault it's the stikers fault
You don’t approve that these nurses should be paid more. Do you think that these employers should fire them all and start all over with new nurses?
There are hardly any laws or regulations left, restricting them.
When a system is publicly owned, there is no profit incentive. The only incentive is efficiency; maximizing benefit for the user and minimizing cost for the tax-payer.
When the user and the tax-payer are the same group, it's up to them to decide the quality of service vs the cost. They get what they pay for.
The only limits on private companies robbing their employees and their customers is them losing all their employees and customers. Since there are ever more monopolies in both market and employment, private companies are getting away with ever more robbing. The customer is not getting what they pay for, and the employee is not getting what they work for, they are both getting the scraps that are left, after the private owners satisfied their hunger.
And then you would gleefully forbid employees from organizing themselves and striking, making it even easier for companies to rob their employees.
I see no argument from you for why an employer should be allowed to become a millionaire or billionaire from maximizing profit and minimizing the benefit for your neighbor. You will allow them to exploit the need of the community as much as they can, while you simultaneously deny their responsibility, saying that it is on those nurses when people die.
Understand that companies will always do the maximum possible or allowed harm,
to maximize their profits. It's up to citizens to push back, to protect their community.
If you want to take away the right of workers to strike, because they have a responsibility for people's lives, then you should come up with alternatives for them not getting exploited.
When those nurses are spread to thin, over way too many patients, it's also their responsibility to act, because patients are not receiving proper care.
This is not a auto assembly line that if it stops we can just drive our current cars until they get something worked out.
This is sick and injured people depending on a system to take care of them that suddenly the people walk out and leave them stranded.
Do I think they should be fired and replaced by the temp workers that have the sense of personal responsibility to do their jobs without the brain washing of a union to do it? HELL YES. Fire the strikers ASAP. Teach them a lesson, don't put peoples lives at stake for your purses sake. If you don't make enough as a fucking nurse get your ass out of there and get another job!
Why is it not the owners of the hospital putting peoples lives in jeopardy by understaffing?
If there is a responsibility for the nurses, there is at least as much responsibility for the owners.
Firing those nurses will make the understaffing even worse. It's the responsibility
of the owners and management to provide the sick and injured people with enough nurses to take care of them. A strike is temporary, but if the nurses don't get their demands of better staffing, that's a permanent risk for the patients.
I think that it's not about the patients for you, it's only about workers being obedient and never asking for anything.
I don't understand why you want to live in feudalistic society. It doesn't serve you,
it will only make the system disrespect you even harder.
1. The Core Report
Ford’s CEO, Jim Farley, has said Ford dealerships in the U.S. have about 5,000 open mechanic/technician jobs that can pay up to roughly $120,000 per year.
Farley and some articles frame this as a sign of a broader workforce issue in America — especially in skilled trades like mechanics, electricians, plumbers, manufacturing, and emergency services.
The headline you’re seeing — “I’m offering $120,000 jobs but nobody wants them” — seems to be an Internet exaggeration or social-media meme of that underlying claim.
💬 Public and Media Reactions
A. Business & Economic Coverage
Fortune and other business outlets note the shortage is not about laziness but about skills and training: auto technician jobs require years of apprenticeship/training before many workers hit the six-figure level.
The Wall Street Journal reports that the six-figure pay is not typical for people starting out; many techs start much lower and only reach high pay after years of experience and working conditions that are physically demanding.
B. Worker and Public Commentary
Many people online push back against the simplistic headline and offer alternative explanations:
Pay isn’t really “$120 k” right away: comments and threads point out that the phrase “up to $120k” can be misleading — that figure is often top end after many years on the job, not starting pay.
Training and tools cost time and money: many skilled trades require upfront investment in education, certification, and tools, which adds barriers.
Work Conditions Matter: some workers note that physically demanding jobs with long hours and limited flexibility are less attractive even with high pay.
Online critics also argue that employers sometimes inflate pay numbers for headlines or list jobs they’re not actively hiring for yet, contributing to confusion.
📊 Why These Jobs Are Hard to Fill (Beyond the Headline)
Experts and labor analysts point to several real reasons beyond “no one wants to work”:
1. Skills and Qualification Gaps
A lot of jobs that pay well require specialized skills, certifications, or years of experience — and there simply aren’t enough trained workers currently. Labour market research shows that mismatches between job requirements and worker skills are a major challenge today.
2. Training Time
Becoming proficient as a mechanic or skilled technician often takes multiple years of training or apprenticeships, and that delay means many people don’t enter the field immediately.
3. Job Conditions and Expectations
Even if compensation is good in the long run, the day-to-day reality — physically demanding work, safety risks, less flexible hours, and uncertain overtime — can deter applicants.
4. Labor Market Dynamics
In some sectors and roles, there are simply fewer open positions overall, or employers are very picky about qualifications, which can make openings linger even when workers exist. Research on hiring finds employers sometimes list broader skill “wish lists” that discourage applicants.
5. Broader Trends
Some data shows job openings overall have declined in late 2025, and hiring rates are sluggish even as claims of worker shortages persist — indicating structural complexity in the market.
📌 So Why Do People Say “Nobody Wants These Jobs”?
That interpretation tends to come from simplistic media memes or social posts, not detailed economic analysis. On deeper inspection:
✔ It’s not that Americans categorically refuse to do these jobs —
❌ It’s that the jobs may require skills many workers don’t yet have, or pay structures that aren’t transparent or worth it for people just starting.
✔ Many workers are interested in well-paid, sustainable careers, but they also value flexibility, training investment, and workplace conditions — and if those aren’t aligned, even high nominal salaries aren’t enough.
🧠 Conclusion
The viral story you linked is essentially a viral spin on a real labor market issue — namely, a shortage of trained workers in certain industries, including high-paying mechanic jobs. But the idea that “people don’t want to work these $120 k jobs” is too simple and misleading. The real challenges include:
The need for skills and training pipelines
Physical demands of jobs
Misleading salary framing (“up to $120k” vs starting pay)
Broader hiring and labor market mismatches
In short, it’s not that “no one wants them.” It’s that there aren’t enough traders with the right training, the pay ladder is long and opaque, and labor market dynamics are complex — a more nuanced picture than the meme-style headline suggests.
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I thought I would post this to help people understand the different races of people.
"The living peoples of the world are generally grouped into three major divisions: Caucasoid or “white”, Mongoloid or “brown” and Negroid or “black”
For centuries, people have tried to divide humanity into a small number of “races”—sometimes three, sometimes five, sometimes dozens. These classifications were often presented as scientific facts. Modern biology, genetics, and anthropology, however, show that there are no biologically distinct human races. All attempts to divide humans into races are arbitrary, historically contingent, and unsupported by genetic evidence.
1. Where the Idea of Human Races Came From
The concept of race emerged primarily in Europe between the 17th and 19th centuries, long before genetics existed. Naturalists such as Carl Linnaeus and Johann Friedrich Blumenbach classified humans much as they classified plants and animals, relying on visible traits like skin color, hair texture, or skull shape.
Crucially:
- Different scholars proposed different numbers of races (3, 4, 5, 6, or more).
- The boundaries between races were never agreed upon.
- These systems often reflected colonial, political, and social ideologies, not biological discoveries.
If race were a natural biological division, scientists would have converged on a stable, consistent classification. They never did.
2. What Genetics Reveals About Human Variation
Modern genetics allows us to directly measure human biological diversity. Its findings are decisive:
- All humans share about 99.9% of their DNA.
- Of the small fraction that varies, most variation occurs within local populations, not between so-called races.
- Roughly 85–90% of genetic variation is found within any given population, and only a small fraction distinguishes populations from different continents.
This means that two people from the same “race” can be more genetically different from each other than either is from someone classified as belonging to a different race.
3. Human Differences Are Gradual, Not Categorical
Biological races, when they exist in other species, are defined by clear genetic boundaries. Humans do not show this pattern.
Instead:
- Human traits vary gradually across geography, forming what biologists call clines.
- Skin color, for example, changes slowly from the equator toward the poles, correlating with ultraviolet radiation—not with racial categories.
- There is no point where one “race” ends and another begins.
Any line drawn between races is therefore a human decision, not a biological fact.
4. The Arbitrary Nature of Race Classifications
The history of race science exposes its arbitrariness:
- Some systems grouped Indigenous Australians with Africans; others with Asians.
- People from North Africa have been classified as Black, White, or Middle Eastern depending on time and place.
- In the United States, Irish and Italian immigrants were once considered non-White; today they are considered White.
A classification system that changes with politics, geography, and culture cannot be a biological one.
5. Ancestry Is Real; Race Is Not
Rejecting biological race does not mean denying human diversity.
- Ancestry refers to genealogical and geographic history and can be studied scientifically.
- Population genetics can identify patterns related to migration, isolation, and adaptation.
- These patterns do not form discrete racial boxes.
Race, by contrast, simplifies continuous variation into rigid categories and assigns social meaning to them.
6. Why the Myth of Biological Race Persists
The idea of race persists because it is socially powerful, not scientifically accurate. It has been used to:
- Justify slavery, colonialism, and segregation
- Naturalize inequality by portraying it as biological
- Provide simple explanations for complex social differences
Science does not support these uses.
7. Scientific Consensus
Today, there is broad agreement among:
- Geneticists
- Anthropologists
- Evolutionary biologists
- Medical researchers
Humans form a single, interbreeding species with no biological races. Race is a social classification imposed on biological variation, not a natural division within it.
Conclusion
All attempts to divide humanity into three races, five races, or any other number fail for the same reason: human biological diversity does not come in discrete units. The boundaries are invented, the numbers are arbitrary, and the categories change over time.
What unites humanity is far more fundamental than what superficially distinguishes us. From a biological perspective, race is not a fact of nature—it is a story societies tell.
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