Explain the argument that race and ethnicity are socially constructed rather than primordial or purely....?

Question

explain the argument that race and ethnicity are socially constructed rather than primordial or purely biological property of population. What might cause boundary shifts or variation in ethnic/racial identity within or between different bounded groups

Answer 1

I just like to "call a spade a spade".

Answer 2

We migrate and in so doing, soon the boundaries will have disappeared and the ethnicity problem will go with it. Eons of time are needed yet. There will always be borders of religion and politics though so until the coming back of Jesus we are stuck.

Answer 3

biologically there is more genetic diversity within a "race" than between "races".....the idea of "races" is a man made term for skin tone.....biologically there is no such thing!!!!

the theory is that physical variation took place slowly as a result to enviormental diversity.....same with culture and language....homo sapiens scattered to the four winds and isolation allowed us to form diversity.....our perseption of it ....our need to label it as something more is a social construct

Answer 4

Why argue?.  There is only one race, the human race.  The variations that continue to emerge result from the necessity for specialization.  One has to keep in mind that our species is actually a couple of million of years old, and that the individual constituents were, and continue to be, required to find ways to survive in the hostile changes created by weather patterns, competition from other groups for the available food supplies, that our earliest ancestors ate their meat raw, were cannibalistic, did not have the ability to communicate verbally, and there was no gender competition.  The contribution of every member of the group had equal value, and was required for survival.  Boundary shifts came into existence as the result of surplus food accumulation, the increasing numbers of population, the development of language, which increased the size of our brain which increased the ability for communicating abstraction, the development of the concepts resulting in more efficient agronomy, meat preservation, discovery of metals, and discovering that mixing different raw metals to create an alloy produced a material superior to stone tools in many ways, competition for female association, the development of the "power over" ideology, the development of using females as chattel by males for the purpose of bargaining.  The development of the concept of a "god".  Now, are you beginning to get the idea?