Question

A friend asks, “Are you blind? Of course race exists!” Explain to your friend why race is, in fact, a social construction, rather than a biological fact.

Answer 1

Race is a modern social concept that came with the Europeans during the period of colonizations.The Europeans called themselves supreme as "Whites"and considered others as "blacks" and inferior.The study on human genes reveal that human genes across the so called race are 99.9 percent alike.Hence, race is a social concept formed by the dominant class who had supremacy over the other class ,it exihibits the exploitative nature and the purpose was to exihibit the power of the dominant class.

The difference in color and physical features of people across the different cultures is in response to the different climatic conditions of the earth and this accounts to only 0.001 percent of genetic make up.Hence,race is ,infact a social construction , rather than a biological.