Talk:Racial grouping

This article contradicts itself
What is this article supposed to be about?

In one sentence, it says: "There is an active debate among biomedical researchers about the meaning and importance of race in their research." In another sentence it says: "The most well-known examples of genetically-determined disorders that vary in incidence between ethnic groups would be...." I am not aware of any published scholar who equates "race" with "ethnic group." They are two fundamentally different concepts and are defined differently in the literature. In short:

"Race" is involuntary and presumed to be biological. An African American, a Trinidadian, and a Puerto Rican of precisely the same Euro-African genetic admixture would presumably be of the same "race" (whatever it would be). Similarly, Carol Channing, Gregory Howard Williams, and Geraldo Rivera would be of the same "race" because each has but one mulatto grandparent.

"Ethnic group" is voluntary and presumed to be cultural. Virtually all African Americans, Trinidadians, and Puerto Ricans would agree that they are of different ethnicities given that they differ in language, religion, folklore, music, dance, children's tales, traditional clothing and foods, etc. Similarly, Carol Channing self-identifies and is accepted by U.S. society as being of the "White" ethnicity, Gregory Howard Williams self-identifies and is accepted by U.S. society as being of the "Black" ethnicity, and Geraldo Rivera self-identifies and is accepted by U.S. society as being of the "Hispanic" (Puerto Rican) ethnicity.

Again, what is this article supposed to be about? -- Frank W Sweet 13:43, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Shouldn't this article be merely a redirect to Race in biomedicine?
On second thought (see above), the content of this article seems to be merely a copy of the intro to Race in biomedicine. If this is the only thing that was intended, shouldn't this article be merely a redirect to Race in biomedicine? -- Frank W Sweet 14:56, 26 April 2006 (UTC)