The myth of race, debunked in 3 minutes 

literally

Ad hominem, nice.

+xereeto wow, you must be fun at parties

You must be the kind of person that believed the one guy and one girl populated the whole earth after eating some forbidden apple in a garden with a talking snake.

Maybe try actually learning something from the video instead of mocking her vioce?

More like shes talking through a gasmask.

Panzerkampwagen 😂😂 YOOO!!

shes just extra liberal thats all.

She sounds like a valley girl. Gag me with a spoon.

george white Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaas

The world is America, didn't you know?

well vox isoriginally from US and US is one of few country that put race as big issue. u dont see people in japan or india talk uch about race because is not consider important there.

The US is the most racially diverse country in the world. Statistically speaking, every other country is much more racially and culturally homogenized than the USA, which is a reason why racial discussions/issues/history appreciation are very common in the US. Unfortunately, the more diverse a place, the more theoretical room for bigotry. Considering all these things, and that Vox is an American news company, publishing on an American platform, there isn't really anything wrong with having this video specifically pertain to the US.

😂😂

FYI America is a continent. Thank you

ikr

Yeah, so?

I see what you mean but that can also be used in their favor to further prove that race is a "myth" because they are using a DNA test to show someone who believes they are superior that they are also what they consider to be an "inferior race" (black). Therefore debunking this "myth".

Nice picture, man

That's great! So at least 11% of this person matters.

At least race is an american invention

Fenistere Inc. Tf?

How do you figure that race is an American invention?

Chick Sage He probably thinks that American scientists are sitting in a room rubbing their hands together manufacturing different races with different average IQs, blood testosterone levels, bone structures, skull types, delayed gratification, etc. You have to understand who you're dealing with, these are the same people that claim men and women are interchangeable and one in the same.

I don't know if they're one in the same but I believe he is mistaken, about the origin of the concept of race :(

The inflection in her voice as she finishes sentences is pretty annoying to me for some reason as well.

Irked me so much

She has a sort of valley girl inflection, but without your typical valley girl vocabulary. But accents are just a myth. They aren't passed down by families and cultures, it's really just more of a social construct.

she ends her sentences as if they were questions. like the girl who went to band camp in american pie.

Yeah, it bothered me too. But I didn't want to say anything unless someone else did. lol

Just learned about this in my AP Bio class that is not always the case. Eskimos who live in the frigid North Canada all share dark skin in fact darker than some Blacks. They are possibly farthest away from the equator a human could actually live. Yet, they have lived there for milleniums.

metfan98101 Oh yeah, thanks for reminding me about that; I had heard it too, but can't remember why. Wasn't it because of the extra brightness from the snow reflecting sunlight?

"and yet it's been the most important factor throughout history" Well that's obviously wrong. Japanese were never considered "white" even though they have lighter skin than most Europeans. And Australian Aborigines were always recognized as being a separate race from the African races (yes, plural) at least as far back as 1870 when Aldous Huxley put forth a taxonomy of races, and probably long before that. People who imagine that skin color was a big deal historically are just projecting their own knowledge that the colloquial terms "white" and "black" and "colored" were used, and imagining that this is what people in the past literally thought race was.

so why are Eskimos darker than Europeans?

Dynevor Shannon to deal with greater UV radiation reflected off the snow, and the thinner ozone layer at the arctic circle.

@@collinvargo5787 its primary genetic wich makes it a part of society

@@First4ci u talking about the genes of specific races?

@@collinvargo5787 yeah, that's what I wanted to say. I'm an anthropology student and English isn't my first language so I wanted to make sure what he meant before responding to his comment

@@collinvargo5787 I'm on your side fella 😌

What ted talk is that? Sounds interesting. Plus any other videos on the issue of race and it’s history that anyone suggests? Thanks

Her ideas too.

Patrick Boyle no, the general consensus among contemporary scientists. enjoy the dustbin of history.

She should sound professional.

C.L Mckenzie I think of camp camp frowned campn

Patrick Boyle she literally has research to back it up

It's like saying ethnicity isn't real and phenotypes aren't real lol.

what is wrong with that statement ?

@1salvaje Oh we are not confused. Vox is.

Why is that so hard to comprehend?

I actually some what agree race is just a word a word that was meant too help identify you and what your origins are but now it's just a word that causes division amongst people well now that I think about it I fully agree

Yes it was very bad.

Extremely

Horrible voice, really horrible. I switched off after a minute and that crap background music! Aaaagh!

I think I lasted 10 seconds.

Lumpy Space Princess

No. Race is only a way to describe someone’s relation to privilege, being discriminatory against people with a different relation is still racist

Since I know about this I can't unhear it in like almost every video 😓😤

Ikr it's so annoying.

Everyone uses Vocal Fry, some more than others :)

but those who use it more, often sound reeeeally annoying :D :D

tarends Granted but a lot can't be helped. I think the person in the video may have had a hoarse voice, though, because hoarseness does increase Fry to protect the voice :) It could just be the person's voice, of course.

Nicely done sir.

Absolutely brilliant

MrJekken This like my post, except done 20 times better, and posted before mine. I feel like a hack.

starelative Is he the original author, though? It's very good, but I've seen quite a number of other people who have posted it here as well.

Joel P. I'm not, some anon created it, someone said to comment it on the video so I thought why the bloody hell not

I agree, sounds like a stoned Bay Girl

+Phil Lynch I didn't notice that the first time, but then I rewatched it and it was quite annoying.

I literally am a teenage California girl and her voice is so over the top lmfao I feel like she's smirking the whole time

I think is just her natural Californian accent

lol

@Gabrieldragonslayer69 Thanks! 😎👌

@SEB 😝👌

@@tyronejohnson5635 cope

@@tyronejohnson5635 makes it even more epic

@NesiaWaffen exactly, we’ve all lost in the end

+George Christiansen I wouldn't take "doesn't exist" at face value. The video is trying to show that race doesn't exist as biological or even social fact rather than doesn't exist as a cultural categorisation system.

Tiny McMcMc Yes. I am aware of what they tried and failed to prove.

+George Christiansen Even if they did exist at one point, humans are mixing back together. Just because someone is very phenotypically different doesn't mean they're genetically very different. The only reason genetic testing still works is because we pin the general majority geographical location of where your DNA most typically looks like. Have you heard of the black man who's ancestry is European? If race did exist this wouldn't happen.

Ashley ASHLEYM Yes we are much like mixed breed dogs and becoming more and more so and I am not even arguing that there is much to do with the info that there are in fact different breeds of humans, but to pretend they are not to be PC and for fear of racism is just cowardly BS.

+George Christiansen I agree, this video said it "debunked" race... but it didnt, it just told me that people in the 1700 who didnt had the concept of DNA where able to use visual and behavioral cues to differenciate humans because we all have differences. It only shows that some people dont agree on exactly what biological markers define the concept of race. It didnt debunk anything

claude bawls Your name, your country, your gender, your political & religious beliefs, & your words are also social constructs.

claude bawls Using it isn't pretentious at all, don't be so sensitive about it, it's just technical ass shit, Countries exist & so does race.

yes let elites rule you because we don't need equality

+claude bawls But a good one.

Caleb Fultz Hence, inequality is a biological construct.

D Tellafone It's unbearable. I had to stop watching halfway through because of the vocal fry.

same

Semantics sort of Saying that race is a social construct is slightly different Race is still a thing Like actual paper money has no inherent value But it is valuable based on the social and economic importance the society gives it Same with race

@@sjacks3281 I don't personally see the concept as having any real worth, it only seems to divide us where division can only be detrimental.

That’s because people will be arguing a point your not making. Race doesn’t exist scientifically . BUT because humans have used race to seperate and demonize it DOES exist Socially. You would be talking scientifically and they would be taking socially. You both are right it’s just that humans don’t know how to have a civil conversation anymore.

@Mr Sandiep Yes and honestly it doesn't matter if you are a Racist, or an Anti-Racist, either way you are giving the concept more control over our lives.

@Mr Sandiep I've been saying this for ages and people don't seem to understand! Let's make this a thing! Let's abolish the term "race"!

The idea of race is culturally important in some conditions but means little genetically

I think perhaps she was getting 'race' and heritage confused. I see people do that a lot and usually as soon as I point out that they're talking about heritage or culture rather than 'race' most seem to get it right away. Unless of course they're sporting a Confederate flag, but who tries to reason with those people anyway?

Yeah, it's annoying to have to stop and explain every time I say the word 'Mexican' that I ACTUALLY mean someone from Mexico.

+Duskears race, in this instance, is "heritage", it's something like a stereotype people identify with and prescribe to, like nationalities and any other human-constructed ideology or concept. Unless you're thinking of "race" as if it's a medical, scientific proof of different peoples according to region, in which case the scientific result is a resounding NO - people with the same genetic makeup can come from different regions, appear with different looks, hone structures and skin tones, so your idea of race that separates humanity based on geographic origins DOES NOT EXIST. It is just an easy, superficial means people categorise others based on appearances alone, which have NO scientific proof whatsoever, as as explained before, is in direct contradiction to scientific discoveries of distinct genetic groups that have nothing to do with skin colour or national borders. Your concept of race then, is culture, the culture or different people who subscribe to different ideologies and behaviour patterns. That's in the realms of socioeconomics and anthropology, not genetic science.

God doesn't exist, but the fact that people think he does has greatly impacted humans throughout history.

She can't even

based

ReichHop Don't believe the media hype. Most people do not practice race mixing: occamsrazormag.wordpress.com/2015/01/16/genetics-white-americans-are-very-white/

ReichHop Your loss.

Race doesn't exist in the sense that it is a social construct. It isn't a real concept in that it is only real because we choose to acknowledge it. If everyone stopped mentioning race, it wouldn't exist. That is why it is a myth. The fact that it's definitions keeps changing to the point in which, we're just making it as convenient as possible for empirical claims, means that it isn't a real thing. It is an attempt to discredit arguments aimed towards race, and possibly discuss a more real issue.

Herp Derp Racism doesn't exist in the sense that it is a social construct. It isn't a real concept in that it is only real because we choose to acknowledge it. If everyone stopped mentioning racism, it wouldn't exist. That is why it is a myth. The fact that it's [sic] definitions keeps changing to the point in which, we're just making it as convenient as possible for advancing certain socio-political agendas, means that it isn't a real thing. It is an attempt to shutdown debate about race and also other real issues that are deemed politically incorrect.

@Conor ---- what 1800s eugenics literature did you pull this from??

@Conor ---- Are you actually serious right now?

@Conor ---- your racist.

We all come from Africa

@Conor ---- You misunderstand how evolution works. "Evolve" doesn't mean "get better" and "devolve" isn't a thing.

+Scrub Lord nice projection

+Scrub Lord the biological truth is stupid? The statement you made is ignorant.

what biological truth is there really kiddo, the concept of race is purely subjective for social and economical purposes. if you honestly think the amount of 1 chemical, melanin in your skin and eyes is enough to dictate a separate category of people you are truly ignorant and racist. >B-B-But B-Bone structures r-right? yea people are totally looking at slight bone structure when calling people ''Blacks'' But hey You've been indoctrinated into believing a lie, I can't expect you to think for yourself.

+mhypersonic the biological truth>>> that all humans are one species and not divided into races "Kiddo"! Race is a construct ....and the claim above that the video was stupid was my objection ok????

wow you guys are both fucking idiots

It really wouldn't matter what level of specificity she chose, the point would still be the same. There's no heritable chromosome, allele, or genetic marker or sequence that denotes a unique or specific race. The most a person could do is compare a person's entire sequence to a bank of other known people and take a best guess as to the general area their ancestors were from based on how common their alleles are in a given area. But even that only gets you so far. Certain phylogenetic traits may be more common in certain areas, but they're not absent throughout the rest of the world. What about Iranians with bright red hair and green eyes? Or Mexicans that are really pale? How would you differentiate Polynesians from SE Asians? What about people like Sandra Laing? Her point still stands.

Right but not everybody gets treated the same throughout their lifetime based on their skin. A tan person, depending on who they come in contact with can either be mistreated or praised. It’s objective not specific.

Race isnt real

Nevertheless NO ONE is from a different race because... THERE ARE NOT DIFFERENT HUMAN RACES! There's only one race: HUMAN RACE!

No such thing as human race! We have different backgrounds!! Different origins. Race in America is important

@@lewisflowers5757 yes, but we are still the same species. We may have slightly differing genetics or different physical traits, but we are all humans. Not that hard to comprehend.

Based.

didnt laugh like this in ages

I liked this comment some while ago but I can't remember why now. I don't get the reference anymore 😂😂

+Username47948 true fact

+Username47948 Except carbon is still carbon no matter what you call it or where you are, whereas the same cannot be said about race.

+Rashad if your skin is black, you are black. it doesn't matter what your called

+Andrew MacDonald Who actually has "black" skin? Melanin is brown, it makes up the color of our eyes, hair, and skin. I know plenty of people who don't even have brown or "black" skin yet they are referred to as "black"

Rashad, you shouldn't need this concept explained to you. You're brown, you should know better.

***** i don't know what race you are. we could be the same race! wouldn't that be fun. however, like i said in the OC, race is a loosely defined combination of genetic variation that is related to a particular ancestry; we chose to call this variation "race." i can't prove to you we are of different (or similar) races over youtube. you'd need a genetic test for that. i believe there are some offered commercially if you're that interested. don't confuse my defense of the existence of race as a defense of racism or otherwise discrimination based upon such genetic variation.

+certioremfacere You just destroyed your own argument. You attempted to use science to prove that race is real, and then stated "It has no distinct black and white lines." Science is about categorizing, especially in biology, and in order to do so there must be distinct features which make each category. Race is not scientific at all. In fact, a black person who is 6 foot 6 is more genetically similar to a white person who is 6 foot 6, or an Asian person who is 6 foot 6, or a Native American who is 6 foot 6, than an black person who is 5 foot 3. And notice how I used race to prove my point, that is because what this video tried to explain, and what clearly flew over your head, was that race is not SCIENTIFIC but rather is a SOCIAL TOOL. You cannot prove someone is of a certain race from their genetics because genes are incredibly complicated and intertwined, however, you can say a person is of a certain race from what they look like, and the way they look superficially is determined by so little genes that are extremely sensitive that it would be redundant to scientifically classify that. However, as the video points out, race does exist because of society, and it is not necessarily a bad thing. Race is typically an important part of culture, and it is easily used to identify people based on racial characteristics, BUT IT IS NOT SCIENCE.

+certioremfacere hard to accept isn't it?

+certioremfacere Not at all. It's pointing out that the invention of the idea of race is what propagated slavery and the negative things that happened on history because people used this invention to other people, to say they were less human. Your skin color and your face shape and all of that have differences and you can generally classify people into those phenotypes, but if you look at the genotype there are no real differences. I think the persistence of the idea of race allows racists to have an excuse to justify their racist opinions. I think the eradication of the idea of race (not the history, always need to teach history so people don't repeat mistakes) will decrease racism and promote the idea of we're all one people, we can't other each other and say they're less human because we'd have no base for that claim. Of course people can create the us vs. them mentality with other things, but doing away with something that doesn't exist in the first place I think is a step in the right direction and to crush the idea that we're different because we're not. This will at least lessen racism because now if you're a racist you're automatically an idiot instead of it just being more likely that you're an idiot.

+certioremfacere People often confuse race and ethnicity, in reality there are 3 races that in different mixes make up all ethnicities. they are defined by skull shapes

@happy hippie EXACTLY SPOT ON

This guy gets it

finally, a person who can think

No, it's not

Yep, you’re right.

Race does not exist in the human species. Denying that is denying the reality. It’s simple science

Réno Boni Try putting the Sentinelese into a society then.

@@katakuri2470 What does that have to do with anything? The sentilese wouldn't be comfortable in our society, therefore they're a different race? That's some odd logic you have there.

Random User I think what he was trying to say is that if you put a group of people that have an average IQ of 70 into a society of an average IQ of 100 they won’t fit in. Fair point

Random User of you really believe that evolution stopped with humans then you’re hopeless. Your a lemming someone who is incapable of critical thinking.

Ric Dweld statistics, I’d imagine. Or at least that’s the excuse.

For one, you don't have to put anything. Secondly, those categories come from the very racist 1920s where whites were afraid of new immigrants (Chinese, Jews, etc.), so they reduced "race" to simply skin color. In the 19th century race was a much broader concept included skin color, ethnicity, and religion.

Asking what race someone is, is not the same as discrimination. Alotvof many people today are being hired because they are not white, because companies want to be seen to be diverse

@@bilboblaggins7659 that's messed up

@@bilboblaggins7659 But there are white people from many different countries. What makes you think that white people only exist in the USA?

When this video talks about race, they talk about race as in taxonomy which is the most popular way of describing race, especially in race realist groups. The breakthroughs in molecular biology in the last decades (like seuencing and micro array? have proven that genetically speaking there is no such thing as race. What makes matters even more complicated is epigenetics which meakes twins not exactly the same. Basically, humans are individually different and not racially.

Asian isn't even a race if you define race by differences between groups of people. Native Indonesians, Chinese, and Indians are all Asians, yet people say "asian" is a race.

Quite right. And for that matter, Arabs, some of them at least, are Asians, too. But look, Asia and Europe aren't evan different continents. They are one solid land mass, no water between them. Europe and Asia are, in fact, social constructs. Troll that all you want, nazis, but it's still true.

What brings "hate" is groups being forced to live together. It's unnatural and evil. Personally, I want to solve all racial problems by keeping the races in separate countries, as is natural.

It's natural for people to move around. Otherwise, we would all still be living in South Africa, where we began, and would not have evolved those small differences that makeup race. But yea, go ahead with your plan to move the majority of humans around so that none of them live near people who look different from them, and then force them all to stay put. Let me know how it goes.

Well, obviously. It's by VOX - a JEWISH PUBLICATION

are you going to provide proof or just spout out opinions like a child. Evidence, evidence, evidence through experimentation. Don't just post what u wanna believe.

@Racialist Slayer you don't know much about science, do you?

This doesn't deny anything.

what science?

Didn't deny anything

Your “science” is just outdated/misinterpreted research.

Where else do you talk from? Your ears?

Niko Kääpä I know, I'm kidding, chill

+Fireurchin Productions I know you were, chill

this voice is typical of liberal middle class whites, not all of us.

+Marc Burton i want to make myself clear: I don't think you all talk this way. I actually think that certain American ways of speaking are truly wonderful. I just don't like how it's evolving in certain groups. Sorry for seeming petty.

The vocal fry is strong in her.

She's trying to sound condescending.

She high

@Post-Nazbol Jucheism that's pseudoscientific

Of course they are made up. We didn't inherit or derive these categories from the universe or from nature. Somewhere in our history someone notices certain canines look similar in some aspect in a manner that is heriditory and then invented a name for this easthetic

I didn’t know that human evolutionary differences were in any way shape or form similar to the artificially selective breeding of differences between different dog breeds.

Thedemonhater - Whether the effects of breeding was "natural" or "artificial " is irrelevant to the point this video is trying to make. They're trying to argue that human races aren't "real". I am saying that they are as "real" as anything else. If you want to say that human races aren't "real", then to be consistent, you must say that dog breeds aren't "real" either. All human races can breed with all human races and all dog breeds can breed with all dog breeds. Yet, we have clear and obvious expectations of different behaviours from different dog breeds - aggressive pitbulls, friendly golden retrievers, caring St. Bernards, etc. The breeding - whether "natural" or "artificial" had effects. Effects are real.

@@virvisquevir3320 Well there isn't a lot of information on the subject. It's generally a mixed bag, though most scientists agree that breaking humans down into "races" really isn't scientific at all. Melanin is one component of the human genome. There are differing genes between wider groups of people, sure, but not on the scale you're thinking of-- that's been widely disproven.

Madame Catfish Have you had your DNA analyzed yet? :)

Yes.

"By saying that race doesn't exist because an individual may identify themselves with one that they do not appear to belong too, you should just as easily state that the sexes don't exist because some people might identify with a gender that they do not appear to belong to." Yay! You're learning things!

Madame Catfish you're getting confused between race and ethnicity. Race is categorization based on phenotypic markers. Ethnicity is categorization based on cultural markers.

ichiboku1 Exactly.

ThePridefulRogue facts

All true. About 66% of American Latinos are white. Which makes the use of the term "non- hispanic white" confusing.

Hispanic originally comes from Roman word Hispania which was used to describe the area of Spain and Portugal(today known as Iberian peninsula)

On that last bit I'm pretty sure Hispanic is just for those of Latin American origin I've never heard of a person from Spain or someone like me who has Spanish decent (ik I've got a Celtic name) but living in New Zealand called Hispanic. I can see why that's disputed it's kind of like a faux identity kinda like people in US using hypenated terms like Irish-American when they don't have dual citizenship they only using it cause their great great great great grandparents came from said place

Hispanic means "of Spain" or "from Spain" Hispania is the Latin word for Spain. Spain was called Hispania under the roman empire. I don't think it makes sense to say an Asian person can be Hispanic.

Agreed, disappointing narration

Geographical ancestry and race aren't the same thing.

No that is exactly ​@@poody771

​@@MATHMAN-qz3deNo it isn't.

I believe some causes of diseases are in some physical groups, eg, blacks, Jews. Evolutionary variations explain this just as it explains height differences. But evo variations dont exxplain moral character. Racism is, among other things, a rationalization of unearned moral status, ie, the hatred of mans need for moral decisions. This is common human experience, applicable equally to cannibals and Hollywood movie directors. Racism-Ayn Rand

@@TeaParty1776 Well you "believe" wrong. There are no human diseases that only affect one group of humans.

underrated comment

Race has everything to do with a piece of government paper actually.

@@brazilbr4415 ok panda

True

thise are people who IDENTIFY/ARE IDENTIFIED as white, black, hispanic, ect. nothing to do with reality

Actually, I think royal blue and navy blue are pretty clearly defined, using hex triplet, sRGB, CMYK or RSV. Personally, I wouldn't say that there is no such thing as race but a universally accepted definition for racial divisions, doesn't seem to exist.

Chick Sage so your gripe is wording then. Not that we are in fact different and can be grouped by that way

Her point is that race is subjective- as is color sometimes.

***** It doesn't matter. race still exists.

***** no, Asians, black people, white people etc. all have similar physical characteristics within their groups including skin color, hair type, and average body mass. Race exists hands down.

+Ian Morris I can see your point man

+Ian Morris Of course there is, the exact same thing can be said about lowland gorillas and mountain gorillas yet nobody has a problem with considering them separate species! Lewontin's Fallacy is the name for what you arguing. While Lewontin's statements on variability are correct when examining the frequency of different alleles (variants of a particular gene) at an individual locus (the location of a particular gene) between individuals, it is nonetheless possible to classify individuals into different racial groups with an accuracy that approaches 100 percent when one takes into account the frequency of the alleles at several loci at the same time. Only an idiot would argue that there aren't real differences between races or even ethnic groups(Ashkenazi Jews comes to mind). Traits do not need to be universal for it to justify the classification of a race or even species, what utter bullshit. Even between different species there is often no universal traits, so what kind of a silly fucking argument is this? Do you have any idea of what you're even talking about? How it goes against pretty much everything in biology??

Its just the massive ignorance of the people. They believe Islam is a race and Muslims are a race, and that isn't backed up by science. What I love the most about these types of people is that they will pick and choose which scientific studies to follow, and then lie and say others are false when both studies' results were done using the scientific method and other scientific research processes. Its bias that makes people so bad, when it comes to these kinds of disagreements. If they like a certain scientific result then they will link that and share it as much as they want, but when another scientific study comes out and either rejects the error of the previous or "finds out" some new information about something that they (the people with biases) disagree with, they'll call it 'pseudoscience'. I can't stand those types. They have the *GAUL* to believe in the Theory of Evolution and other scientific THEORIES, but they can't even stay with their own criterion! [and I'm not talking about weak studies or fringe theories, I'm taking about the most widely accepted and tested through the means of mathematics and science, THEY TRY TO REFUTE THESE, when these findings used the same d*mn method that the other sources that they cite use, but they will following one finding and dismiss the other one (even though, both are widely accepted)] They have no basis, those types. Either you accept ALL of science (that is verified, research, tested and proven true) or you are partisan, shameful person. Statement: The "Neanderthals" are an ancestor of the Europeans and Asians and much of the world, except for most of Africa: Most of these people will accept this Males have XY chromosomes and Females have XX chromosomes: Most will accept this Populations migrated into Asia and Europe from Africa 60,000-120,000 years ago: Most will accept this but Race is a social construct that is not backed up by REAL Scientific studies: Most, like those on here, will reject this How can someone live with themselves when they are biased/partisan? Do they love being like a hypocrite? What is most funny about these people is that they are blind to their hypocrisy. Its not that they are JUST being willfully ignorant, they take pride in being biased and liars. When most people want the truth to come at and try to be as non-partisan as they can, they try to be REAL/authentic and not fake people that tell lies, half truths and only follow the Scientific studies that they like, while calling the others false. I, like most unbiased people, are of the school of thought that if you want to follow science and its really just science through the verification of mathematics then follow ALL OF IT based on its CRITERION/STANDARD Do not pick whatever studies suit your selfish desires and needs. And there are studies and certain topics of debate that are still in a argumentative stage, and I'm not talking about the WIDELY accepted studies, as I said and I must STRESS!! Studies that have been verified time and time again cannot be easily dismissed! And it kills people like me, when he have to scour and search widely for scientific evidences and research that might support a theory that we believe MIGHT be true, because unlike these people, WE DON'T PICK THIS STUDY AND DENY THAT just because we want to be biased and can't accept that the notion we had was wrong, WE WANT THE TRUTH and deep down in our hearts know that if we act like "fringe theories" and other studies are at the same level of widely accepted studies, that we would be lying to ourselves. We are the supporters of the FACTUAL, LOGICIANS, true mathematicians, in the sense that we are faithful to what the numbers and data says and only that which can be duplicated and is verified. So it enrages me so, that people will act like Science is the distingusher when people can't even agree upon the ACCEPTED scientific studies. Either follow all of it, or follow none of it. Which is why my rule of thumb when idiots like to try and follow science but pick and choose, is to ignore them and let them foolishly stay in a state of ignorance The (Truth, fact, data) is there but only those that can humble themselves will accept, I've had to swallow my own ideals and in place accept the FACTS but I guess some people do not have this inside of them, when it comes to LOGIC, FACTS and the Maths of the Sciences

History In My Blood And your evidence that all of academia, education, science, and universities are controlled by reptiles is...?

@@abdulkadirali96you weren’t doing THAT bad until you started being transphobic too…

It merely refutes "race" actually.

@@poody771 Your faith is strong. Evidence could only weaken it.

It merely refutes it.

@@poody771 Again, you evade identifying the alleged refutation. Your faith is strong. Evidence would only weaken it.

No. It explains why racial classifications are shaky, because they're based on how we define them, and proposes environmental reasons as a better conclusion for differences.

Who says Europe is this glorious, non racist utopia? It really isn’t, and racism doesn’t exist imo to the extent that Americans hate other Americans due to their close biological geographical origin vs their social economic residence and its sub culture. For example, people may not like inner city towns because one could argue that there is a victim mentality that diminishes work ethic as the government will step in and “help” them, creating higher taxes and more crime. The race of the people isn’t in question, although since the area, in this case, inner city people, are majority black, it’s easy to see how we almost subconsciously combine race with hatred of a town with the race of people which we consciously separate.

@@majesticface3631 Europe has an overall lower crime rate in numbers and rates and they also have fewer homeless people too :)

@@majesticface3631 no one said that Europe isn't racist. just that saying that someone is of race X is mostly seen as racist and frowned upon. I mean I live in one of the most racist countries of EU and in here the term "race" has negative connotations. but it's just a difference in culture I guess. I get that in the US it has more to do with politics but it is worse because it was intented to be used as a way to classify and discriminate against people. race has never been biologigal, it has always been political.

@@majesticface3631 Europeans are more tolerant than European Americans. Not because they are more moral but because they are better educated than Americans. The U.S government still distributes debunked theories from the 1800s to its citizens by using a Census and telling them to check a race. This reinforces political control. Essentially the U.S government is full of very unethical individuals. This then trickles down to the rest of its citizenry.

@@douche8980 This aged horribly.

Race is a social construct, but ok

Can you do a DNA test to determine whether someone is black, white, asian, hispanic or native indian? Oh, you can? JUST A CONSTRUCT!!1111!

Goonky No. DNA test tell you were you came from

Ak K Yeah, exactly. Race is a set of physical characteristics shared by a common people usually located together in a geographic area.

Goonky No it isn't there is no race gene. A black person can live in China and there DNA can be traced back there. DNA test prove nothing

What is race?? Is it based on historical geography? Or is it level of melanin ? I don't doubt that those have effects on medical needs, white folks are more likely to have skin cancer. Black folks are more likely to be vitamin D deficient. The problem is that melanin production or lack thereof seems to be linked as a cause of behavior and value that have been completely unfounded and this would seem to be the origin of its use.

@@TheAmateurPodcast there are clear differences on almost every level. If such differences between human races existed among an animal group, they would be considered sub-species.

@@TheAmateurPodcast "What is race?? Is it based on historical geography? Or is it level of melanin ? It's based on genetics and therefore ancestry, which naturally maps with historical geography going back far enough (because you couldn't have children with people 1,000 miles away). The fact that you bring up melanin levels means you don't understand how genetic works, there are plenty of people who are "Black" who have little to no melanin, they're called "Albinos". Nobody I know of is claiming melanin production is linked as a cause of behavior. What's being claimed by some is that African racial ancestry is linked as a cause to behavior. Whether you believe that or not is another matter, but you don't even know the basics of what's being claimed and why. The claim that the "race" construct was created to explain behavior being linked to melanin production is simply not true. Nobody thought that a partly Black person with the same level melanin as a Japanese person was the same race.

Race isnt real

@@allaboutthemurzic Then why can I make better decisions about someone's health using a racial categorization? That's the definition of a valid category, that you can make better decisions/predictions with it.

i mean we do talk about how people consider certain traits as worse

I bet you hate FBI crime statistics.

@@jo18533 omg

That's because no one agrees on what those features and attributes are- who goes in which category, what the categories are and why. The Washington Post did a poll when Obama was first elected where respondents said he was black. Eight years later the same survey found that people thought he was not black. Race is obviously fluid and subjective. I am 100% Irish. My so called "race" is considered white. But when my ancestors came to America 175 years ago theirs was not.

@@kindnessfirst9670 You are a white European. There you go, not too difficult was it.

Bye bye then...

What are you talking about "blatantly wrong". Do a little research and you'll find race is an imaginary way to organize ourselves. We technically as humans are a race. Its hard to understand for anyone really because it goes against what structures much of our society. Nothing wrong with a good internet rant, just look up the topic you're ranting about before starting.

joseph carreras classification in "races" is a social construct - as we are all belonging to the same race, also known as humans... Your comparison with flowers are really far fetched and if it should have any merits it would only be if we were talking about how all humans are mammals...

joseph carreras Don't let others decide your opinions for you! Argue them yourself and see how much sense they make. Saying humans vary as much as flowers do is plain stupid. Humans are much more similar than you'd admit. Body structure (Including facial structure and vocals), and skin colour are what we mostly identify a race by. In both of these aspects, people in the same household vary just about as much as people in the same race. The only other difference I can see is that some groups in society have lower IQs than others, but this can be attributed to low socio-economic status as a result of historical oppression.

joseph carreras there is actually evidence to back it up...

You mean culture? Traits and characteristics tend to be based on where you grew up not skin tone.

She didn’t say that. She said there is no gene identifying separate human races. You are talking about phenotypes & adapted traits due to regions.

John Burton 🤦🏾‍♀️

John Burton You don’t deserve a response. I believe you are intelligent enough to know what a phenotype is. Humans may have different looks but we are all the same. Responding to you is a waste of time. Have a nice day. Stay indoors & do your part to help with the pandemic that doesn’t discriminate based on phenotype. Bye.

@@michellehubbard8865 Anytime we categorize objects we decide to group things one way as opposed to another. In this sense, all categories are social constructs. If we wanted to we could get rid of the category “table” and, in its place, invent two new categories: one for all “tables” that are brown and another for all “tables” that are not brown. Of course, it is more useful to have one single category which denotes all tables and so that is what we go with. But the point is that we choose to “go with” one category scheme and not the other. Thus, there is something “social” or “artificial” about all categories. Simply noting that a category is man made tells us nothing about whether or not it can aide scientists in predicting and explaining the natural world. This, that race is socially constructed is irrelevant to its validity. It is important to realize that these “socially constructed” categories are also “biologically real” in that they are socially constructed ways to organize natural biological variation. We could chose another way. There are nearly countless ways you could group people based on biology. it has long been known by those who see race as biologically real that race is also socially constructed. Moreover, in non-politically charged contexts this is seen as uncontroversial and irrelevant. The fact that a category is man made does not mean that it can’t help us predict and explain nature. And so it has little relevance to whether or not a category has a place in science.

Come on... Vox seems more like a propaganda machine than PragerU, trying to 'debunk' biological differences such as race in order to feed the leftist narrative, and feel better with themselves instead of recoginzing the evident differences between human beings, this shows how desperate can a political group be that it denies facts such as consolidated sex, and race itself. And I am proud to say that the right hasn't got and has never claimed to have the goals of the american left, which are basically: achieving to consolidate victimhood culture, where the more different you are to a white male, the higher in the scale you will be placed, they value by the racial and gender differences rather than by the content of character. PraguerU is obviously not a university...

Vasco Delgado Race is not a biological thing. Where is your evidence?

Vasco Delgado why are you even on this video?

Power StaticX Infinity "Whites tends to have smaller teeth, often with significant crowding and impacted third molars, and frequently exhibiting an overbite. Blacks rarely have crowding and the upper teeth often project outwards due to the angled shape of the maxilla. American Indians have well spaced teeth but often exhibit sclerosed dentition-when calcium deposits build up inside the tooth, thinning the root canal-leaving teeth loose within the mandible and easily cracked." Edit: This isn't the only example that shows different races show different characteristic's

Maze R!ot Proof?

Race is the matter of distinctive clustering of morphological-genetic traits. All subsaran african indigenous peoples have distinctively evident regionally distinctive historically indigneous clustering of characteristics

@Tron Batman But the point is that they descend from a small group of the people who were living in Africa and thus there is much less diversity present. However genetic drift and other factors have indeed increased diversity, East Asians and Europeans or Papuans and Europeans are closer to each other than either are to Africans.

Like its not "made up" that people from different areas look very different

Racial categories are incredibly arbitrary and should not be taken seriously

@@petruska111 that's ethnicity

@@19382q race is defined by people looks Ethnicity by origin and culture

​@@isaac3140 How? Race catgeories describe your biology.

💯 well said

Pure facts

It definitely isn't more than it has been lol. Anyways videos like these tend to attract racists like flies.

After Trump's election, many grotesque beings began to manifest themselves in profusion.

@@poody771 Like yourself?

See I respect this more because race dosent really make sence when your talking about skin color appreciate this one

The video is actually saying that race doesn't objectively exist as a biological category, but it exists as a social concept that is important to understand due to the influence of racial ideas on society.

Sometimes silly ideas become very important because so many people believe them. The idea of race is an example.

@@dimetronome race has existed long before societies did, hard to be the invention of something that came later..

@@irlmusic8001 That's not true. Race as we understand it today has existed for around 500 years. The concept has its roots in colonialism and slavery around that time.

Armenian history sounds quite interesting!

Social construct

Because people keep trying to bring it up as if it's a valid factor.

​@@prophecy5886especially when dealing with an inferior race when Egypt and the Olmecs come up

Because it’s lie and an important thing ethnicity is what defines us

If the Little Mermaid doesn't exist, why is there a movie about it?

Ethnicity and race are not the same thing. There is only one race, the human race and many ethnicities (people groups). Isolate any group of people for an extended amount of time and only breed within that people group and you will have commen physical traits. They don't produce another race.

@@danielmann5427 No, there's only one SPECIES, but many races. You're using the word "ethnicity" exactly with the meaning of "race".

@@rubicunduseratiudas1264 false . Go look up those words in an old dictionary. The orgins of those words.

@@rubicunduseratiudas1264 - notice i didn't use the word species. Thats a newer word. Which doesn't make sense and is a darwinian construct.

@Succubus Hypnosis one word fool. Not an argument.

Races as defined do not exist and are not the first steps to speciation.this is evident by the fact that members of a specific race can be closer genetically to members of another race than they are to most people of their own race. Race isn’t defined as closely related population instead it’s an arbitrary categorization of people based on physical traits and tells you next to nothing about their genetics or genetic relationships. Obama is a black man but is closer genetically to white people in the US than he is to any African person in Africa besides immediate family. He is also closer related to “white” people than he is to any “black” Asian person. I can see how what you are saying would make sense if race was defined using population genetics but it’s not.

There is no biological proof of race. It's entirely a social construct with no scientific or biological basis.

​@@Schnoz42069until its time to decipher the skulls of murder victims or tell the race of Ancient Egypt

@@EternalEmperorofZakuul not how it works. Determining the race of human skeletons is notoriously inaccurate

@@Schnoz42069 especially when you Disprove an inferior race's lies, especially when it comes to Ancient Egypt and the New World cultures

Saying "race" is an objective characteristic is like saying "I'm a lakers fan" is an objective characteristic. Find me the DNA that predisposed you to liking the Lakers. What's that? You can't? Cuz it's a social construct? Woah...no way. This has nothing to do with woke ideology (whatever that means) and everything to do with epistemology, ontology, and biology.

also, reminder that melanin exists.

@@mr.personalspace7831 Almost everyone has melanin. Indian and Melanesian people are darker than most Black people in America. The name Melanesia and melanin share the Greek root "dark" and Melanesia means "dark islands".

Which gene is unique to "Caucasians"?

@@NanakiRowan there are a collection of physical traits that are genetically passed down by generation. If it helps you out, Google "typical white/Caucasian person" or "typical Swede". Just because there are often gray areas in race where there's a lot of mixing going on doesn't negate the fact that there are groups of people with distinct physical characteristics in this world.

@@johnp82 You said there are certain DNA markers that are unique to you and Caucasians. Those are your words. Which gene is unique to Caucasians?

@@NanakiRowan you're asking a loaded question. All humans are genetically similar but if you do a DNA test, actual DNA markers will tell you exactly where your roots are through common ancestry, meaning if you're a white person from Sweden (Caucasian), other similar people will share the same DNA markers, and black people from Sub-Saharan Africa won't share those markers.

@@johnp82 I'm not asking you a loaded question, I'm just questioning the statement you made. I'll specify a bit better. What DNA marker is unique to you and other Caucasians? You only have to name one, so it shouldn't be too difficult.

@@DataEngineerVS98 the funny part is that, that's actually right religion and God are social construc, we created religion too explain the unknown

Bruno Fonseca That‘s true but biological race in humans is also a social construct.

Race is still not real, try again.

@@brazilbr4415 If only you had some hard proof...

@@brazilbr4415 you’re not real try again

The fact that race is a social construct is precisely WHY we need affirmative action...race is an arbitrary system of categorization that has been used to discriminate against black people, therefore we need affirmative action as a restorative measure to undue historical racial trends in higher education attendance

@@owen3721 Exactly

His real last name is Hernandez but changed it to not be "grouped in to latin music". So yeah race is real.

Where is my Sherlock Holmes 3?

because you have a room temperature IQ

Humans don’t have “sub-races” , science doesn’t even believe in this

@Smythe Do you have a source? Most of the science community doesn’t even believe in race and there’s plenty of factual evidence for this There’s no biological basis in race since it’s socially constructed

You just going to ignore how people placed in the same racial categories can look totally different from each other?

So there's a Queen Elizabeth II race, Joe Biden race, Neil Tyson race, etc? Because we all look differently from each other.

You are thinking of populations not race. Differences in populations exist however race is not a biological classification nor does it make any sense in genetics.

@@wodzisaww.5500 just beacuase something is on a spectrum, no way makes it “arbitrary”

@@wodzisaww.5500 Arabs are semitic not white

@@wodzisaww.5500 No I didn’t. 😉

@@wodzisaww.5500 The only thing I have proven is your arrogance.

Mixed implies that there are "whole" races out that that we can be brought together to create a new combination. In that way, when we say someone is mixed we are insisting on the reality of race, even if no such thing exists in any biological sense.

It is a social construct though, it's an American/European concept that categorises people as black/white when there are so many ethnicities in the world.

Prove it.

@@poody771 Then if races don't exist, neither does racism. Assuming she proved that race exists, so does racism not exist. Now, check the other videos on Vox's channel and see the hypocrisy for yourself. And yes, race exists. I'm not going to debate a liberal on this, not on fear that I'll get debunked, but because liberals don't know what critical thinking is.

​@@ultraprotestant88You don't want to "debate" me on this because you have no argument backing up your position on this. Where in the video does she claim that race does not exist as a sociological phenomenon?

@@poody771 Can't prove a negative, genius.

​@@ultraprotestant88 I want to preface this by saying this isn't me trying to start an argument, simply providing how I see this. I would like to say that I am using critical thinking in this, as I am currently finishing up an Anthropology class which discusses this. Race doesn't physically exist. There is no one physical feature to define someone as a particular race. However, it is still a concept. Think about money. In America, a piece of green paper can have different worth based on the image it has. All of the value that we gave the paper, is that. We gave it the value. That doesn't mean it is worthless, it still can mean a lot in the society we live in. That is what a social construct is. Race is similar, it is a construct that was made by humans. There is no actual biological difference in 1000 people with darker skin than 1000 people with lighter skin, besides the fact that one group has more melanin than the other. However, race still plays a role in society. Someone who is perceived as black will most likely get treated worse throughout their life compared to someone who is perceived as white. People will still place stereotypes on others based on skin color. Racism is how people take that social construct and use it to be discriminatory towards others among other things. Similar to how people use the social construct of money to buy items that are worth more than a piece of paper. TLDR; Race is a social construct that still plays a role in our lives. Racism is the use of that construct to be discriminatory towards others.

You forgot 'thin lips.'

Biological races do NOT exist in humans. Races may exist in humans in a cultural sense, but biological concepts of race are needed to access their reality in a non-species-specific manner and to see if cultural categories correspond to biological categories within humans. Modern biological concepts of race can be implemented objectively with molecular genetic data through hypothesis-testing. Genetic data sets are used to see if biological races exist in humans and in our closest evolutionary relative, the chimpanzee. Using the two most commonly used biological concepts of race, chimpanzees are indeed subdivided into races but humans are not. Adaptive traits, such as skin color, have frequently been used to define races in humans, but such adaptive traits reflect the underlying environmental factor to which they are adaptive and not overall genetic differentiation, and different adaptive traits define discordant groups. There are no objective criteria for choosing one adaptive trait over another to define race. As a consequence, adaptive traits do not define races in humans. Much of the recent scientific literature on human evolution portrays human populations as separate branches on an evolutionary tree. A tree-like structure among humans has been falsified whenever tested, so this practice is scientifically indefensible. It is also socially irresponsible as these pictorial representations of human evolution have more impact on the general public than nuanced phrases in the text of a scientific paper. Humans have much genetic diversity, but the vast majority of this diversity reflects individual uniqueness and not race.

And it’s not a race. It’s a skin color.

if you keep a toast in the toaster too long it's also black, so is that a different toast race?

I love you, you are so adorable.

Réno Boni it’s not even a skin color tbh, I have yet to meet a person who’s skin tone is the same color as outer space.🪐

@@WhyfallinLUVwhenUcanfallasleep Nope. Actually no Black person has black skin. Black is a race and skin tones vary even among races.

Sociologically it does, with a couple of other visual traits.

@@poody771 yea, only 2 ignorant ppl, besides tht, it doesnt

​​@@poody7712 people can be apart of the same race look at black people and black Hispanics/Latinos.

She sorta wrong tho

@@First4ci Explain

@@ungabunga3183 Different races have different skull shapes.

@@Сашаромисмерть Different ethnicities have different skull shapes to adapt to their climate/region. Race is not the correct terminology as it cannot be applied to humans at any scale

Under "Asian" houses Iraqi's, Indians and Japanese people. What genetic traits do these people share?

Asian as a race - isn't based on genetics, but geography. A vague way about it, but that's what it is. But to answer your question, they share 99.9% of their genetic traits; all being human that is. And just because a race of people might be defined on a geographic region, rather than genetic traits.... doesn't mean that race is a myth. It's just a different way of defining it. Race is very, very ambiguous, could mean many things... isn't perfectly defined... but is not a myth. It's just a way of categorizing different groups of people, which isn't unethical.

Well now you're backtracking. First you said, "Don't over complicate - and looking for a specific gene that defines race is plain stupid. Look for general combinations of genetic familial traits, and voila - you've got a race.", now you're saying that race is ambiguous and it isn't perfectly defined? Well which is it? And now that I'm re-reading your first comment when you say "It's a fact that groups of people who share a common history in a given region, share similar genetic traits, behaviors and customs." that sounds a lot more like an ethnicity than race. The Irish have genetic traits that are not shared by Hungarian people, this is evident by genetic tests that can directly pinpoint where you DNA can be traced to. They also, don't share the same language, customs, holidays, foods, land, so why are they grouped together under the "white race"? Because they both have fair skin? Vox isn't saying that racial categories are unethical, although they've done more bad than good in this world, they're saying that they aren't a scientific fact like most people think. They're real, but they're socially constructed and they shouldn't be used to pre-determine someone's intelligence or their character or their mental, physical or psychological health/wellbeing.

I said in my original comment race is vaguely defined: vague and ambiguous are synonymous. So where did I backtrack? And a race of people have a common ancestry or "ethnicity"... so I don't know why you're making it sound as though the two concepts are completely unrelated. I agree with you: a white or black race is a stupid classification for a race- because it's too generic... same with Asia. But that's how it's done. If a scientist took a sample of my blood, and your blood.. or Gandhi's blood, it would be easy for them to identify which of us is white, which is black and which is Asian. So that's pretty scientific if you ask me. If race was all just in our heads, then geneticists couldn't identify an Asian or African simply, by looking at their genome- but they can. The title suggests Race is a myth that has been debunked: it's not. Race is a concept based on real criteria- just vague and poorly defined. Racial categories haven't done any more harm than categorizing elephants as pachyderms. People do the harm, and they don't need to be taught the concept of race in order to be xenophobic. What about using the concept of race to teach tolerance? Why it's bad to be racist. Isn't that good? You say people shouldn't use race to predetermine intelligence? - this goes without saying. Who does that anymore? Which educational institution teaches that? Can you list a single one?

Common ancestry does not mean exactly the same ancestry. You're twisting my point; no wonder you think I'm contradicting myself. Nigerians and Somalians are closer related to each other, than they are to the Irish or Hungarians. It's dumb to think otherwise. Because something's ambiguous, doesn't mean it's complex or difficult to understand. When you over complicate ambiguity, comprehension becomes difficult. Carl Linnaeus, didn't invent race, he just tried to catalogue it. Racism, occurred before he came along. I don't agree with the main point in the video, that race is all just a social construct. Religion, is a social construct. You CANNOT determine someones religion, by testing their DNA- because it's all made up. But you can determine race, by values in your biology- you agree with this. I'm done. Who cares about individuals online? I'm talking about laws and educational institutions, Nobel laureates who's opinions actually matter. You can't name one, because it's not a thing anymore. It's not socially accepted anymore. You're kicking a dead horse.

Many of us are mixed race because it was planned in advance to make the west more mixed and less white

wrong, the reason is that there simply is not nearly enough biological difference between humans from different parts of the earth to distinguish in gaps as wide as races. its like saying a brown doberman is of another race than a grey and a black doberman. there aint no fkn poodles in humans. we all dobermen, just different colors and slightly different features.

Here's a question, do you think God would accept us based on what color we are? If not, then reality should tell you it doesn't matter, only to humans who are far from perfect does it even matter

But you are not mixed race. There literally are no races. The very idea is unscientific (and racist).