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Racism is a social construct and has no real scientific basis. This gives rise to many inconsistencies and overlaps since these categories are all man made. This fact was well understood in the sorting exercise that we were asked to do in the first question. The exercise revealed that how we base the categories or divisions of people on our assumptions. Also, for majority of the common people the divisions are not that broad.