2021-04-06|CANADA NEEDS RACE-BASED DATA ROUNDUP: COMMENT.
To the Editor
Re: CANADA NEEDS RACE-BASED DATA ROUNDUP: COMMENT. (2021-04-06)
The writer wrote "It's time we give up the visible minority category in favour of more robust and comprehensive race-based data collection."
The whole concept of race is irrelevant in logical paradigm because race, unlike species (Homo sapiens), cannot be clearly defined or determined. Thus, racism means recognising the existence of artificial divisions along the continuous shades of brown.
The fundamental question is: "What is race anyway?" If you measure the skin colour of human beings, the colour shading forms a continuous shade of brown. There are no clear lines separating among white, black, yellow, red, and green to categorise and label people into stereotypical visible majority or minority. There may be DNA sequences to suggest that some genes are dominant in certain groups, but science has proven that there are greater differences between individuals than between groups.
As for me, I have always self-identified myself as "Other: Homo sapiens" in censuses, surveys and questionnaires. I sincerely hope that more people will embrace scientifically logical facts and enlighten the Canadian society as such to make a difference.
