Introduction Despite the erroneous origins of the term race and its modern usurpation by advanced studies in biological anthropology, American society at large (and elsewhere) and mental health professionals continue to place great cultural and psychological value on the term. ... Without any scientific pretense whatsoever, the concept of race was constructed to classify people by arbitrary physical or geographical characteristics. ... Race is a groundless classification system which distinguishes types of people based on physical features such as bone structure, skin color, and hair texture (...

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