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<div class="">I note that th University of Glasgow site against racism implicitly perpetuates, in its use of the word “race”, the idea that that are separate races of the human species. It should be changed.</div>
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<div class="">On 24 Jan 2023, at 11:03, Suchith Anand <<a href="mailto:Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk" class="">Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk</a>> wrote:</div>
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