By Bernardo Filipe / January 1, 2026
An interviewer says, “There is no scientific evidence proving a black woman and a white woman are genetically different”. Sorry, but every single human being is genetically different from each other, except for twins, and even then, epigenetic differences can arise (how their genes can be expressed). Some groups of humans are more genetically similar than others (they have similar DNA), and the chimp’s genome is 98% equal to the general human’s. This woman sounds both uneducated and brainwashed. But maybe there is a deeper meaning behind her words, psychologically speaking, and let’s indeed assume there is. Strictly speaking, she is wrong, so why is she so confidently saying that?
It all boils down to one camp saying the genetic differences between human beings are negligible and inconsequential and one camp saying they are relevant and consequential. Every single human being has a unique DNA (expect twins) but some groups of people are more genetically similar than others. You can therefore use mathematics’ set theory to group individuals together. For example, Finnish people are genetically different from Italian people, but the Finnish and the Italians are in turn more similar to each other than to, say, the Congolese. Impossible to deny this. Now, the question is: are these genetic differences relevant? Obviously, it’s not just the skin color, or height, that is at stake here, but you CAN indeed generalize about these things, just as you can, for example, generalize that red fruits have more antioxidants than non-red fruits and are therefore better at combating free radicals in your body. This is called THINKING, which is basically the ability to make generalizations about the colossally complex universe we inhabit. So start making statistical studies about the behaviour of certain genomes and make your conclusions. Or don’t think about this stuff at all, if it makes you uncomfortable. Whatever floats your boat.
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