> Isn't this the same country that requires race science courses in their colleges?
The UK doesn’t require race science courses. "Race science" is considered to be pseudoscience and virtually no college or university will offer a course on "race science" unless the course is explaining why race science is dumb.
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People who have attempted to turn race into something scientific haven’t made much progress. They could never even agree on how many races there are in the world, which is literally the first step.
For example, say you want to declare that European is a race. Where are the borders of Europe? Europe is categorized as a continent because Europeans see themselves as special, but it’s really just a peninsula of Eurasia.
Or for example, say you want to say "Asian" is a race. Iranians are Asian, Indians are Asian, the Japanese are Asian. Do they look anything like each other?
You can see based on phenotypes, it’s a little bit subjective how you categorize humanity into different races. The real problem comes in when you factor in genetics. For the longest time European racists wanted to classify Africans as genetically inferior or subhuman or less pure than white Europeans. The issue is that Sub Saharan Africans actually have the most pure Homo sapiens DNA because Homo sapiens evolved in Africa. When we left Africa and interacted with other species of humans, for example Neanderthals in Europe and Denisovans in Asia, we bred with them. For this reason, sub Saharan Africans have very pure Homo sapiens DNA while Asians and Europeans are mixed with other species. Then on top of that, it doesn’t make sense to categorize black people as a race since sub Saharan Africans have about one million more genetic variants than everyone else living outside of Africa. This is because when humans left Africa and crossed over to Eurasia though the land bridge connecting Egypt to Israel, only a relatively small population of humans populated all of Eurasia and all of the Americas (indigenous Americans). Because of this, all populations outside of Africa are actually relatively inbred. A British person and a Japanese person are more genetically similar to each other than two Sub Saharan Africans would be to each other.
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Then the thing is, even if Africans have a million more genetic variants than everyone else does, there are 3 billion base pairs in human DNA, and a million is a thousandth of a billion, so even if Africans are more diverse than everyone else is, they’re still almost all exactly the same. Because humans aren’t very genetically diverse as a species in general.