Ethnicity is biological.
Race is not.
Black Indians and Black Persians have similar biological profiles to Black Africans, for example, the structure of the hair follicle. They are all of related biological ethnicity, but they are of radically different cultures - particularly if you throw Australian Aborigines into the picture. Lumping them all into the same race in America is an attempt to deprive black people of their rightful ethnic culture.
But that's what race is.
See - in Europe, I wouldn't be "white" unless we are talking about Muslims. No - I'd be "French," or "German" or "That damned yank." Race is, therefor, relative to the context of the conversation and used to reinforce human trends toward tribalism.
[video=youtube;Za50U9uvrdY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za50U9uvrdY[/video]
Oh... so... she uses her own hair as an example.
But she's not black... which is biological...
My head hurts...
Race is biological too. Gender dysphoria is only a thing because we've made it a thing and over time that will change. If you pick and choose what you're open minded about then you're not open minded.
I'm going to have to agree with Aim64C for the most part. If I went to the Dominican Republic they would probably call me Moreno or if I straighten my hair they would call me Indian instead of black.A lot of people do not call themselves black there even if they are black...for varies social reason...If some of them came for America they would be considered black because of the one drop rule. Rachel's hair looks permed..in the video she talked mainly about people of African descent hair. I really don't know where she got a 8 hair type system from but I hear a lot of people in the natural hair community talking about the Andre Walker hair type system here
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It's broken in the category 1-4 with subgroup called A,B,C. I'm in the 4 range on that chart because I have 4A.4B. and 4C hair.
With Rachel we can see some clear difference in her unaltered hair and altered hair here
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Her unaltered hair is in the 1 category but her permed hair is close to a 3C or 4A hair type.
Edit:I think Rachel was talking about this hair type system of 8 types but the problem is that it's missing hair types
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