What's Diamond mainly arguing? What's your reaction to it? Is he persuasive?
What Diamond mainly argues is that the traditional classifications of races, which largely depended on skin color, isnot absolute. Also, race classifications are changeable because what traits someone choose for classifying race is not fixed.Therefore, the continous codifying all various appearance into an dogmatic system of racial classification is required now, as Diamond said. However, he didn't show the specific ways for achieving this requiremant, so it's a little weak conclusion, I thought. Also, he put away the explanationof the reasonwhy skin color, eye color,and hair color and form are used for classifyingrace only by "after all". So, I wanted to explain more about is. Also, I couldn't find out the reason why he stuck to dispassion. At any rate, his insight for racial classifications was interesting for me.
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