Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6901880-20130304064503/@comment-8986886-20140104214216

These quotes are from Wikipedia:

''"Race is a classification system used to categorize humans into large and distinct populations or groups by anatomical, cultural, ethnic, genetic, geographical, historical, linguistic, religious, and/or social affiliation. First used to refer to speakers of a common language and then to denote national affiliations, in the 17th century, people began to use the term to relate to observable physical traits."

''"While some researchers sometimes use the concept of race to make distinctions among fuzzy sets of traits, others in the scientific community suggest that the idea of race often is used in a naive or simplistic way, and argue that, among humans, race has no taxonomic significance by pointing out that all living humans belong to the same species, Homo sapiens and subspecies, Homo sapiens sapiens."

I think we all agree that both Quincy and Fullbringers belong to the Human species, while alive at least, after death they become either Souls or Hollows. The defenition of a Race of Humans, however, is built on a rather loose and uncertain concept, and should perhaps be changed into a Powers section. Instead of a Race section saying that Cang Du is a Quincy of asian descent, or that Zommari is an Arrancar of african descent, it could say that Cang Du is a Soul with Quincy powers, and that Zommari is a Hollow with Shinigami powers.