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Tenchu - 01-03-2008, 10:27 AM

Like I said... I'm not talking about race. And if you accept that race doesn't coincide with nationality then how can you argue that Chinese, Japanese, Korean people are distinguishable from each other via physical characteristic?

Also I'd like to use my own example to give more insight into the reasoning behind my position.

Take one attribute, say height, facial proportions, whatever you want. Let's imagine that we took a sample size of say Koreans for arguments sake and a sample size of Japanese people (or if you like pick any other set of nationals from whatever region you want). Now say we calculated the AVERAGE dimensions of said attribute and correlated all the data on a bell curve. Chances are you'll find that while they might vary slightly on AVERAGE, they'll more than likely overlap each other. OK... how does this make it possible to determine an INDIVIDUAL based on an a set attribute.
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