JJ <[email protected]> writes: > In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] > (Virgil) wrote: > > > What does Ethic background have to do with race ???????????????? > > Ethnic background IS race. (look at a dictionary) Ethnic background is *not* the same thing as race. "Race" is a biological classification, while "ethnic group" is a cultural one. That is, you belong to a certain "race" by virtue of who conceives you, but you belong to an ethnic group by virtue of which society you are raised in. -- Luis Casillas Graduate Student Department of Linguistics Stanford University "If your whole life passes in front of your eyes the moment before you die, does the moment in which your whole life passes in front of your eyes before you die pass in front of your eyes?" --Anonymous