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Message: <blockquote data-quote="refineryworker05" data-source="post: 3015120" data-attributes="member: 66082">This is an objective fact.  Race as an idea has a beginning and it is a relatively new idea compared to the whole of human existence.In fact, human history is filled with people who look just alike, who live close to one another killing and warring with each other.  They had no concept that oh my skin color is apart of my identity and that skin color connects my identity with others with the same skin color.The Germans didn't think they were the French, the Japnanese, don't think they are the Chinese, Nigerians don't think they are the same as Ghanians, etc.This is belief in a shared identity based on race or skin color was adopted during the transatlantic slave trade.</blockquote>