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To: NYer
I just posted this on a different thread:
Moroccans are not a race, and people who criticize Moroccans are not racists."

So what if they were?

Race is a somewhat arbitrary characteristic assigned to breeding populations. There is no reason why such populations could not develop characteristics considered undesirable by some or all of the other breeding populations.

ML/NJ
3 posted on 12/09/2016 5:49:46 AM PST by ml/nj
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To: ml/nj

Are there races of dogs? There are quite a few different looking and acting breeds. What are the charzeteristics of a breed vs that of a race?


13 posted on 12/09/2016 5:57:55 AM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: ml/nj

Europeans have different views of race than Americans. Until very recently, Irish & English, Polish & Lithuanian, German & Italian were racial divisions. Actually, in Eastern Europe, they still are. So they would understand the comment on Moroccans as being about race in the European context.


51 posted on 12/09/2016 7:00:57 AM PST by FateAmenableToChange
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