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Those listed sound more like geographic areas than races.
You put a Korean or north Chinese in the same basket as a Filipino man, yet make of all middle-easterns (1 or 2), a distinct category to all Europeans?
What about the Khoisan? By some anthropologist they are thought of as a separate race to (Bantu) Negroids, i.e. the Capoid race.
And the Polynesian population? They sure had to be a distinct group as well then.
As for me personally, I don't think races are existent in nature as such. There is human variation created through evolutionary mechanisms, and a closer similarity of one group to another (in genotype, phenotype, intellect, behavior etc.) as a result of them being exposed to a likewisee similar enviroment and living conditions.
Now, you may call them Caucasoids and Mongoloids, Blacks or Whites, Nordid and Mediterranid, but that's all up to the scientist and the applyed criteria. Such notions still lack importance in extra-hominid nature itself i.e. races as we understand them are rather culturally than biologically determined.
Just my two cents.
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