>>511099784 (OP)To be fair he's kinda right, races as we know them today are fairly new and wouldn't matter in the ancient times. Back then people cared about ethnicity and even stronger blood purity
For example, the "white race" arouse due to free market capitalism erasing borders between ethnicties in NW Europe, so instead of identifying as the Dutch/AngloSaxon or English etc. they identifyied by the catch all term of "white". It's the same with "European" identity or how "white race" keeps expanding with free trade and political unions. "White purity" would not mean anything to a Minoan Greek but "Minoan purity" would mean everything they wouldn't likely mix with those who aren't
Nations which are late to the party or had to keep together around some specific ethnicity by whatever reason tend put their ethnicitiy above race. You will hardly find a Japanese person whose identity is more about being "Asian" like the Mongols than it is about being Japanese. That's why the Japanese are less likely to mix with Chinese in the way the English are likely to mix with the Dutch because they're both "white"
The ranking from more to less specific is
Ethnicity - White (old) - white (new) - European - Western
Identities tend to shift towards the right and purity of the ones of the left get forgotten