[TradicalRC]

There are 3 races, anthropologically speaking. Everything else is a mixture of the 3 in varying degrees. That, combined with geography, creates ethnicity. Combine that with political boundaries, and you have nationality.

that is the perspective of age-of-enlightenment liberal science. Race at one time meant what ethnicity means today. I do not know of anyone without a culture, so how can it not in some way be genetic?

[hispanarepublicana]

So, are Cameron Diaz and Cheech Marin two different "races", or two different "ethnicities"?

[Vast Buffalo Wing Conspiracy]

that is the perspective of age-of-enlightenment liberal science. Race at one time meant what ethnicity means today.

Excellent observation. People trying to make the ethnicity vs. race distinction today don't seem to realize that the two words mean basically the same thing, if you explore the origins of these words. Problem is that 19th century scientists came along and took a perfectly functional word, "race," and redefined it to mean exclusively something to do with skin color, shape of skull, etc., without any cultural context at all. This has created more than a bit of the mess and confusion we are in now when trying to understand "race". It created the genes vs. culture, nature vs. nurture false dichotomy which we are currently intellectually hobbled by.