dianavan's contention that the "sub" in 'subspecies' is an attempt to portray one portion of a 'species' as 'inferior' is just plain weird. Where does she come up with such twaddle?

When the term 'race' is used by a biologist it means what Ebbie posted: "An interbreeding, usually geographically isolated population of organisms differing from other populations of the same species in the frequency of hereditary traits. A race that has been given formal taxonomic recognition is known as a subspecies."

Since control of such terms concerning people were put under the control of anthropologists and not biologists, a politcally correct approach has taken over. Still, a person's 'race' is entirely controlled by genetic makeup. Period.

The correct word for the concept expressed on this thread (and many others) is 'ethnic group', which can be determined by race, language, culture, country-of-origin, etc.,etc.,etc...