Race: an emotional topic. . .

Race:
1) An emotional topic and method of categorization created and enhanced by years and years of Western ethnographic, scientific, economic, and socio-political bolstering.
2) An inaccurate way of categorizing groups of people based on identifiable visual markers only. These visual markers then inaccurately establish a person as a group-member of usually only one specific ancestral source.
3) An inaccurately simplistic categorization of the location of a person's ancestral background.
4) A way of inaccurately grouping people together in categories that presuppose cultural similarities, biological traits, and often socio-economic status for the benefit of the current social order.
5) The precursor and catalyst for the necessary invention of and older concept but modern word, "stereotype."
6) A socio-cultural method established within a culture of heirarchical power structure that encourages individuals to compete with, alienate, and think of each other as unlike themselves or working towards an opposing goal, conclusion, or solution.
7) One of many common reasons sited to hate another individual.
8) A means of getting a group of individuals to identify with each other on a very specific group of commonalities deemed valuable, identifiable, timeless, and defining.
9) A means of getting a group to value certain traits they have in common with a smaller group and deny other traits they have in common with the rest of the population.
10) A social invention used to make commonalities of a whole society invisible so as to divide and control peoples encouraging them to believe they have more in common with each other inside the group than they have in common with populations outside of their group.
11) A method Western civilization in recent history has created of grouping and categorizing populations that has been adopted by most of the modern world.