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Your race could be a factor in a medical diagnosis. Whereas your caste is completely irrelevant

> According to geneticist David Reich, "while race may be a social construct, differences in genetic ancestry that happen to correlate to many of today's racial constructs are real."

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You are confusing race with ethnicity. Race is a made up thing, a construct with no basis in reality

Every single question regarding race that I have come across lumps over half the world’s population into one race, “Asian”.

True that around 60% of the world population lives in Asia. I’d say “Asian” is more a geographic classification rather than race. Asia is huge and contains multiple races within.

Even smaller continents like North America or even Australia/Oceania has multiple races within them

So as the word “race” is applied in the US, race is not very correlated with genetic ancestry.

How so? Sorry I’m not as aware of race or racism as much I am of caste and casteism.

In the US, based on someone’s answer to a question on which race they belong to, you would not have very good odds on determining their genetic ancestry.

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