Posted by Reno

In the most anal retentive sense "Australians" could not be considered a race, but you would be silly to argue the point. In the social-science sense, a 'race' would be a group defined by their physical similarities.

I suppose 'Australians' would be considered an "Ethnicity":

"Ethnicity refers to shared cultural practices, perspectives, and distinctions that set apart one group of people from another. That is, ethnicity is a shared cultural heritage."

But this view of the world is a strange way of looking at humans. If we consider "Australians" just an ethnicity that implies that that we only allow 'races' to be the aboriginal people of their respective lands as they're the only ones who have genes that would have been influenced by the landscape.

If we take this view, then the only real Americans would be the Native Americans and the only real Australians would be the Aboriginal Australians, then one could make the point that there are no real English people or French people and ideas like English people or French people are just social constructs, because Europe is bastardised by thousands of years of cross-cultural breeding.

I don't think anyone looks at the world like that, not even you.

If you do believe that there's not many races, just socially constructed ethnicities, and you dislike the social construct that is 'Australia' then you wouldn't be a racist you'd be a bigot. Which is just as bad.