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Should we do away with Race and use the term Breed?

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Should we use "Breed" instead of "Race"?
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David Libra

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 06, 2018 12:32 am
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Bucks5 wrote:
Maybe you are onto something. Don't they refer to people of mixed race or ethnicity as half breeds or half caste?


I don’t think anyone would use those terms nowadays – both are considered pretty offensive (particularly by Indigenous people, for whom it evokes the rhetoric of the times of the Stolen Generations and institutionalised racial discrimination. Probably as good a reason as any to leave terms for people like ‘breed’ in the past.

stui magpie wrote:
David wrote:
It's a good question on one level – I don't know that the concepts are so fundamentally different (probably the key one is that dogs have been deliberately selectively bred and thus have much more distinctive appearances, whereas human diversity is far less marked).


Take a typical Japanese person, an African of Bantu origins and a Nordic blonde, stand them side by side and you don't reckon there's a marked difference in appearance? Chuck in a tubby pommy ginger for effect if you like.


Compared to a chihuahua, a bulldog and a labrador? Nope. Even if you didn’t take into account differences in facial features, body types and fur, consider pure size alone: a Great Dane weighs 20 times as much as a chihuahua. Compare that to the height difference between the average Inuit and average Ethiopian – there’d be 50 cm in it at most.

It’d be an interesting art project to depict what comparable variations in humans would actually look like if we were as diverse as dog breeds. Pretty freaky, I’m guessing!

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 06, 2018 12:55 am
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I think it’s sad we have to label people at all.
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 06, 2018 12:55 am
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Apart from umpires!
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 07, 2018 12:35 pm
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stui magpie wrote:
Tried to fix the title 3 times, dunno WTF is going on there. Mad


Maybe get rid of the " " around breed and just have Breed?
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 07, 2018 2:33 pm
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^

Cheers, that worked.

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