Asian or Oriental?

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(03-21-2017, 01:09 PM)bfine32 Wrote: I'll let them know, but they will probably still want race on there.

I'm sure they will. The fact that race has no genetic basis doesn't mean it isn't important; Our genes are not the only factor that influences our health.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/race-is-not-biological_us_56b8db83e4b04f9b57da89ed

One of the author's of a paper discussing this points out that the idea of race still matters when discussing social factors that impact our health. 

This is one of the things he says about it

Quote:For example, we need to continue to study how structural inequities and discrimination produce health disparities between groups. Your race can impact your health, but your genetics is not a good window into how race affects your health. This line of thinking goes all the way back to the sociologist and civil rights pioneer W.E.B. Du Bois. Du Bois was the first to synthesize data from anthropology and the social sciences to conclude, for example, that race-based disparities stem from social, not biological, inequalities.