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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
is race a social construct?
gpt
There are two common issues that come up in discussion on this. The first is that people think social constructs are simple fictions. They are not. Social constructs are complex ideas that are created by people. Money is a social construct, for example.

The second is the idea that social constructs are unrelated to the physical world. Money has a physical reality, of course. Race often corresponds to certain physiological characteristics. What makes it a social construct is the way those characteristics are derived from ideas of nations and continents, and could instead be related to social class, geographical region rather than nation, or any number of foundations for dividing humanity.

So, race is a social construct, but social constructs are real, and social constructs have physical aspects.