How many Races exist?

[Aramis]

Three elementary

Today are defined the following races

European
Middle Eastern
Sub-Saharan African
East Asian
Indian
Australoid
Native American

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.

[Arne]

In India there is only one Gipsie Race.

[CelticViking]

And the Polynesian population? They sure had to be a distinct group as well then.




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Modern Maori= Mongoloid- Micronesian(Polynesian) + Melanesian + Europoid. (Because of their low population, they lived mainly in North Island and all modern Maori have European ancestors.)

Other Polynesians are Micronesian + Melanesian but some may have Europoid.

[Hevneren]

To my knowledge, one.

[Insuperable]

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.

I did write that there are three elementary races
For example Indians are mixture of all three elementary races but officialy they are called Asian Indian race today
on genetics tests someone will get south Asian or Asian Indian admixture probably because their genome now constitues a separate race
I am not well informed about this. I write what I read

[Vasconcelos]

To my knowledge, one.

Shouldn't perhaps Humans be classified as a species rather than race?

[Furnace]

Shouldn't perhaps Humans be classified as a species rather than race?

Yes, the common mistake is "There is only one race, the human race", it should be "There is only one specie, the human specie".

[2Cool]

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.

Finally. Someone who gets it.

If you guys want proof that race is a social construct you just have to look at this thread. Everybody has a different answer.

[Mortimer]

I did write that there are three elementary races
For example Indians are mixture of all three elementary races but officialy they are called Asian Indian race today
on genetics tests someone will get south Asian or Asian Indian admixture probably because their genome now constitues a separate race
I am not well informed about this. I write what I read

so do you think that caucasoids need to be white skinned to be pure?

[Vasconcelos]

Finally. Someone who gets it.

If you guys want proof that race is a social construct you just have to look at this thread. Everybody has a different answer.

True to a point, keep in mind hardly anyone has a graduation in such a field of expertise, and as such these are just opinions based on personal perception.