[Nilufar]

I agree with your overall opinion about ‘race’ being simply a pseudo-scientific category that is in fact, a socially constructed one and therefore, is simply ambigous. Human race is very diverse and rich as a representation of various cultures, languages, traditions, and historical experiences that indeed demonstrate rather a mixture, not an islolated development of a particular ‘race’. That is why we see some many similarities and ‘overlaps’, if you wish, across all ‘races’ or i should say ‘physical types’. ‘Scientific’ categories of race, thus, appear to be rather limited and misleading. Just like in the case of ‘the Turks’, who are we talking about? Turks of Turkey or those hundred different ethnic groups and nationalities of Turkic/not Turkish (!) origin who live all the way from Hungary, Finland, Albania, most of Russia, Central Asia, Inner Asia, Far East, and even China??? Turks are not Mongols, nor are the people of the Turkic origin (Bulgarians, Albanians, Uzbeks, Kazakhs, Tajiks, Uigurs and all those other nationalities). Those various groups have been mixing with Turkic, Iranian, Arab, and many other indigenous tribes and ethnic groups of Central Asia, Middle East, Minor Asia, etc. for many centuries). However, the terms that are used to describe them were too general – the same way the term ‘Caucasian’ has been misleading and incorrect. In we really want to claim any scientific evidence, only people of the Caucasus (those various ethic groups and nationalities of Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan) should be called Caucasian.

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Name : Nilufar, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Uzbek, Religion : Muslim, Age : 35, City : Washington, State : DC, Country : United States, Occupation : Anthropologist, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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