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Ah, i didn't realize people in the anglosphere use it as a social category now.

In German language, dog breeds are called with the same word that can also be used on humans ("Hunderasse", "Rasse"), so i always understood it as a biological/taxonomical thing.

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Just like gender it used to mean that, but now we have to pretend it has always meant something else.

I have never heard of anyone claiming that modern definitions of these terms should be literally projected back into the past - only that we can analyse the past with current thought on these matters, which seems completely reasonable to me.

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