Which of the following statements about U.S.racial categories is true?
A) U.S. racial categories are applied to endogamous breeding populations.
B) U.S. racial categories are biologically valid, as demonstrated by the Phipps case in the 1970s in Louisiana.
C) U.S. racial categories are based on global racial categories that vary little among societies.
D) U.S. racial categories are based on genetics, whereas Japan's are based upon undemonstrated descent.
E) U.S. racial categories are culturally arbitrary, even though most people assume them to be based in biology.

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U.S. racial categories are culturally arbitrary, meaning they are not based in biology but rather are socially constructed and can vary across different cultures and societies. This has been demonstrated by anthropologists and sociologists who have shown that the criteria used to define racial categories shift over time and differ among different social groups. While biology plays a role in shaping physical and phenotypic traits, it does not support the existence of discrete, biologically distinct racial categories.

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