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> French republic and many other European nations dont collect on race.

Which is a convenient way for them not to track patterns of racial discrimination in their social systems.

why should the government empowers pseudo biological bullshit? For me it is very weird to write human race into driver licence, census or university application.

Because perceived race is a big factor in how most people treat strangers, so having that information would likely be useful in identifying unfair bias in enforcement.

Racism doesn't start with race. You can trace racist behaviour way before people invented "humen races".

Racism definitely is based on race, hence the name. Maybe you're referring to some other kind of out-group bias based on tribal or familial status?

Also first sentences is wrong. Human societies had lots of categories than just race.

Why should government investigate whether their employees practice pseudo-biological bullshit?

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