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Also, "race" has been used over the centuries as a reference to religion, culture, tribe, region (e.g. Germanic "race") which makes it terribly ineffective and misleading. Being able to describe someone's skin tone using a color index, skeletal features, or blood characteristics is certainly possible -- does it tell you their "race"? Who is defining? What is it being used for? A lot of energy has been spent over the last thousand-plus years by various people of many nations who misused genetic understanding to create "race theories" to justify mistreatment of anyone different..... Gattaca time?
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Race also has to do with the history of events that occured in a certain place-germany is best known for world wars, Italy is known for having a mafia, Russia for communism, Greece is often associated with homosexuality,Korea with nuclear material, Africa with poverty etc.
Although it is wrong to judge and label people based on where they were born and what they look like, it saddens me to say that most people go by that wrong concept.Good call on Gattaca, strangely enough it looks like a very probable future, save for the DNA alterations :P