Quote Originally Posted by Uticensis
True, race wasn't the exact word I was looking for. But I was using it in the context J.Alco was.
Could the concepts you were trying to explain be named as culture and ethnicity. The culture of a people is all the things they do that define them, such as architecture, mythology, religion, language, customs and all the other things that make a culture unique in respect to other cultures. Ethnicity of a people, on the other hand, could be defined as the blood ties and the genetics they possess that differ them from another ethnic groups. For example romans and karthaginians would be from a different ethnic group.

Of course, these definitions are my own devices and might be impractical. But I must say, that every definition of a race, ethnicity or culture are man made social constructs, in other words theoretical approximations and definitions to discuss and process a real life things that are infinitely too complex to handle.

I think we should maybe get our terms defined and in order before we start using them. Or that's what they teach to me in my uni. And I have to say it's horrible to read some academic texts that don't define and explain the weird terms they use. It is like reading a academic porn or something.... but I digress...