Diamond's"Race Without Color"

The commonsense view of races tends to classify people by the color of their skin. However, Diamond claims that it is impossible for us to classify human by such traits. That is  because differing in classification makes it impossible to recognize any human races at all. Classification changes according to what kind of criteria one uses for classifying.  Those criteria can be separated into 3 types such as some traits to enhance survival, some ones to enhance sexual selection, while some serve no function at all. Even these ways of classification is meaningless because it varies from each individual. In the end of the essay, Diamond concludes that racial classification is an arbitrary system.

I agree with Diamond in that it is impossible to classify human. Human cannot easily divided into groups according to traits that are visible like the example of birds. However, I think that the concept of race or classifying human into a certain group will not disappear since it is part of our life and we accept it unconsciously. For example, when a police is detecting the identity of a human body, they tend to focus on traits of races. Also when there is a unknown human body, media broad casts the appearance which is almost about the race group that it belongs to. Therefore, we have to cooperate with “racism” all the times.