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Re: Expanding appreciation of Triadic structures.
Jenny
jenny@panix.com
Mon Aug  7 12:04:25 2000
Three races?*p*"Race" is a pretty loaded and inexact word.  But in any case, I'd be hard-pressed to call the indigenous inhabitants of South America "Asians" or "Africans".  Even the simplistic, old color-coordinated race divisions recognized more than three:  white, black, red, yellow.*p*You can argue that the Native Americans originally came from Asia, hence are technically "Asian".  But by that logic there's only one race:  African.  Our species appears to have originated in Africa, and dispersed out from there.*p*There are some fascinating trinities in Nature, I agree.  But race isn't one of them.  If it's "traditional" to divide the "races" into threes, that probably reflects the fact that the dividers are Indo-Europeans (who have a cultural pre-disposition for three-ness).  It certainly says nothing about Nature.*p*Jenny*br*
Expanding appreciation of Triadic structures.
Herb O. Buckland
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Tue Aug  1 11:21:16 2000