@alex so are Persian considered white? Not Semitic right?

@alex I was thinking more scientists thoughts. I don't believe in white nationalists.

@alex that is an easy web search but I was always taught there were only 3 not sure if that still stands though.

@alex @Absinthe I'm more of a species kind of guy. Human beings are all the same species. A lot of Sci-Fi and Fantasty in my childhood- So, an alien is a different 'race' but a human being is a human being.

@Absinthe @alex Dog breeds are a showing of eugenics in action. Humanity, for the most part, is unlike breeds of dogs due to the lack of selective breeding.

Still, a dog is the same species despite breed type.

@Surasanji @alex I would argue that humans have been selectively bred by virtue of natural physical borders like oceans and mountains and so on. As well as royalty and class. Certainly not to the degree that dogs have been (for our pleasure and whim) but certainly to similar ends. But as the world becomes a smaller place and cultural taboos of interrelations between cultures are overcome perhaps we are creating the overall healthier mutt!

@Surasanji @alex horses and donkeys are of different species but most times they can have an offspring and in rare cases it is even fertile as well. Homo sapiens do show proof of cross breeding with neanderthal to the degree of about 3% shared genome. One might argue that we are genetically close enough to chimps and Bonobos for potemtially viable interbreeding, but I am pretty sure current taboos prevent the science from even trying such experimentation.

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