Dr. Johnson corrects a student who talks about "genetic racial differences" and suggests that a better term to use when talking about genetic differences among defined groups of people would be:

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The usage of the term race should be questioned if it suggests that an individual belongs to a genetically defined group. A more appropriate term in a context such as this is ethnicity, which avoids the genetic connotation that race often mistakenly implies and focuses instead on the shared cultural experiences of groups that define their members as similar.

Dr Johnson Corrects a Student Who Talks About "Genetic Racial