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Old 09-12-2011, 01:55 PM   #92
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Originally Posted by Awake Knights View Post
(social construction) A concept or practice that may appear natural and obvious to those who accept it, but that in reality is an invention of a particular culture or society.


noun 
races, plural

1.Each of the major divisions of humankind, having distinct physical characteristics

These are contradictory. If a social construct is false then it can be proven so. If races have distict physical characteristics, than this can be proven by science with empirical evidence (which it can).
Reality is a social construct. This can be difficult to grasp.
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