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olelele 26 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave...

skin color does not equal race. The US is really weird to me in that regard.

simianwords 26 days ago [–]

I didn't say it did? Skin colour correlates highly with race. Skin colour is a good predictor of one's self identified race.

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