Race is an informal term. It's like color in a lot of ways. You can categorize things broadly for sure. But when it comes to analysis, you might want a categorization system a little more precise than the contents of a crayola box. Factors such as geography, culture, history, education, nourishment, and more can greatly affect a person and population. Those who try to boil everything down to just race are doing so in an ideological pursuit, and they intentionally blind themselves to things they already know.
Some people feel the urge or desire to classify people based on their background, and in that end I find ethnicity to be far more descriptive than race.
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Editado por Zyklon B: 1/10/2018 1:48:52 AM>Mouse gets born in a stable >Still a mouse, not a horse >Black haired brown eyed brown skin Arab gets born in Sweden >"Swede" 🤔
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Citizenship =/= Ethnicity Notice how you still specified Arab in the example? You know how I alluded to intentional "blinders"? Funny how you (and everybody else in any country and on every census) still tend towards the ethnic term. Also 'Arab' is still a very general term that primarily refers to a language group in the Middle East. It's like how people refer to Jews as Semitic, but choose to ignore the other groups of people that are Semitic like the Palestinian Arabs, the Assyrians and the like. Since Arab as a general term can apply to both Libyans and Afghans, it's pretty sloppy when trying to get an understanding of what a person's culture may be from simply hearing what language they are expected to speak.