Paris’s Louvre museum said on Thursday, November 27, it would raise ticket prices for most non-EU visitors, meaning US, British and Chinese tourists among others will have to pay $37 to get in.
The museum told Agence France-Presse (AFP) the 45% price hike aims to boost annual revenues by up to $23 million to fund structural improvements at the world’s most-visited art museum, which is reeling from the daylight theft of priceless treasures last month.
From 2026, visitors from outside the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway will have to pay €32 – an extra €10 – from January 14, the museum and staff unions said after the measure was approved at a museum board meeting.
As you said racism is the belief that races exist AND that they should be hierarchized. It is true that the genetic diversity is too big in the race groups for it to be biological races, so the word usually is a synonym for way too big ethnic groups.
Thus using “race” is biologically ambiguous and “ethnic groups” should be preferred, however it is still very well socially defined. Using “race” in a social context makes sense and is far from being racist.
Saying “black people are discriminated” is a talk about race not ethnic group. “Black people” is not an ethnic group, it has hundred of ethnic groups and some ethnic groups are mixed race.
“Ethnic group” is an anthropological category, not a biological one. The correct biological term is “subspecies”, which Wikipedia defines as “populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed.”
Given the history of its usage in that context, I have to vehemently disagree. Plus it is so ill defined that it is a useless term anyway. From Wikipedia again: “[…] various definitions exist. Sometimes it is used to denote a level below that of subspecies, while at other times it is used as a synonym for subspecies.”
Using it invokes all the Social Darwinism and whatnot that the Nazis and others abused it for. So where is the sense in using it exactly?
An actually good answer.
But what I disagree with is that the word race being used by racists is justified to call random people racists. I do not use it personally anyway
Oh yeah, not saying that anybody using the word is a racist. Just ignorant, you shouldn’t use it if you are aware of its historical context.
Race isn’t biological at all. It is purely about phenotypes like dark skin colour and mainly comes from dog breeding. There is much more genetic diversity in between people with or without dark skin colour than between these two groups as a whole. So there really isn’t anything other than a different skin colour. Just look at pictures of Albino Africans. They would perfectly fit in the “white race” category and they actually are because again the only distinction is the skin colour. Nothing else attached.
Yes you are proving my point
Using the term “race” as if that is a thing enables and facilitates racism and racist language. There is zero actual use for the concept among people who are not racists.