--- In [email protected], Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> But let's say this classification is true with some
> modification. The modification would be that any
> specific individual of any race could have any of the
> guna characteristics delineated by Bob. I've met some
> very sattvic Black people and some very tamasic White
> people. So perhaps as a group measure what Bob says is
> true, but you will find that the within group
> differences are greater than the between group
> differences. So this classification can facilitate
> nothing other than racism because it has no practical
> application, does it? Since there is no such thing as
> a "group" as a coherent interactive entity, it simply
> reifies an abstract category.

Not to mention that the concept of "race" is extremely
fuzzy to start with in any practical sense.






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