Yes, and perhaps not, though. Unless you siphon off all the mixed people and describe them differently.
Sure. That's why I said a given individual won't have every characteristic you associate with their race. Because it is arbitrary, because everybody's "mixed" to some degree.
"Mammal" is another arbitrary designation. It's a handy way of describing a particular set of characteristics in animals. The fact that the platypus doesn't have all of those characteristics doesn't prevent us from calling it a mammal. Because it's still more like a mammal than it is like something else.
Any system of categorization is just a ways of grouping a set of things (or people) together so you can talk about them usefully. The fact that exceptions exist doesn't make the categories useless.
Jackal has done his (hers?) and it's up.
I've got a full Drive site in development, also. I've been sitting on drivefans.com for a long while. I'm doing it under the badge of my viral fan marketing company as, you know, it's Minear. (Now a verb meaning 'good drama'. Or possibly 'death', you never know).
Where is Google's blogger? Not here, I guess: [link]
He means the site, Blogger.com.
If I was Russell Brand I'd make a joke about your dinkel. And then kill myself.
The fact that exceptions exist doesn't make the categories useless
What you said was:
When we identify someone as a member of a particular race, we are describing real things about them
And I disagree. I think you're describing
statistically probable
things about them. That's a distance from real.
Um, my show's about a race... does that make me on-topic?
No.
Also, I keep having the Team American: World Police song "Aids" in my head.
In fairness, the word(s?) are quite easy to remember.
It's thread drift. So it's like, DRIVE: MINEARVERSE DRIFT.
I'm fired.
