Is the concept of race inherently prejudice?

Question

From my perspective, it seems race is just a vehicle for people, organizations, and governments to make assumptions about the attributes that make up a person (physical, cultural, ancestral, etc).

Answer 1

No. The concept of race was merely bad science.

It is human ignorance that propagates criticism of those not like ourselves.  

Humans can be amazing life forms who invent, discover, solve, understand...then there is the rest of humanity.

Answer 2

No, not necessarily. I would like a constitutional amendment that would forbid government from collecting information about or even acknowledging race.  They are the most racist group in the US and do the most damage especially when they try to help.

Answer 3

Although some people might use it that way, there are real differences within the species, obviously. It is unfortunately PC to ignore the substantial differences among groups of our species and pretend that the obvious does not exist.

Answer 4

There is no such animal as 'race' prejudice, there is only big nose or big a*se or colour prejudice etc, but there being only one race it would be stupid to be" human being" prejudice. PS. People who use the 'race' word are all in general prejudiced in one form or another, so it is always easy to pick them out.

Answer 5

It is just another easy way of thinking. We group people and use judgement on a whole. We don't have to have skin color to do this. I have had people judge me by my s*x, hair color, state, country, religion, and even my last name.

Answer 6

Yea it is, but "race" as ypu put it, does have a formal definition that is based on bone structures, I think there are a total of 7 or 9 races, something like caucoid, mongoloid, etc, etc. They are used for tracing back to human migration, for example humans having origininated from what is now africa and traveled to different parts of the world, evolving as they moved from place to place and bone structure also changed. Ethnicity and "race" forms for equal oppurtunity emplyment are all for discriminating, they are pretty much reserving thr right to discriminate against you, and there is nothing that can be done about it. Racism will always exist, its come from ethnocentric notions. Ever heard of institutional racism, well its pretty much the idea of what you're talking about, organizations and governmens legally discriminating by allowing loopholes in law and regulation of laws.

Answer 7

If you want to use a different term to describe a broad population with a shared ancestry then go ahead, just don't join the "race isn't biological" brigade. Anyone who says that is either ignorant or a liar.