How many races in the world?

If you go by the US Census description there are:
1. White Ethnic
2. Black or African American
3. American Indian and Alaskan Native
4. Asian
5. Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander
6. Hispanic and Latino
7. Other
 
Scythian_Jatt said:
As per my understanding(quite limited), theres only 3 races in the world, White, Black and the Oriental?
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The age old question: what constitutes a race? Are Australian aboriginals black? What about native Indians (from India)? Both of these groups don't share that many physiological characteristics with the "typical" black African natives... are Filipino's asians? White? Should we even care? I'm going for pizza.
 
There are at least 3 - White, Black, and Oriental (or Caucasoid, Negroid, and Mongoloid). As far as I know, the "scientific community" isn't in agreement on the status of so-called "Australoids" - some contend they are a separate 4th group, others say they're too similar to Caucasoids, or something... Australoids would include the aborigines, as well as some people on Ceylon/Sri Lanka and Hokkaido, and maybe New Guinea, but I'm not sure.
 
according to my calculations, i have found 13
 
By the way i think there are

1: Brittanic
2: Germanic/Nordic
3: Romano/Grecan
4: Middle-Eastern
5: North African
6: Central African
7: South African
8: Indian/South West Asian
9: Indo-Chinese/South-East Asian
10: Oceanic Aboriginal
11: Pacific Islander
12: Oriental
13: North American Aboriginal
14: Latino
15: Central Asian
 
There is only one human race. For example, a Finn and an Aborgine have genetically very much in common. Different sorts of apes have more genetic differences then two humans living half a world away from each other. And this has been scientifically proven.

Humans differ from each other by skin color, culture, language. ect. But we are still one race.
 
Reno said:
There is only one human race. For example, a Finn and an Aborgine have genetically very much in common. Different sorts of apes have more genetic differences then two humans living half a world away from each other. And this has been scientifically proven.

Humans differ from each other by skin color, culture, language. ect. But we are still one race.
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i'd say we are one species, not race
 
Communisto said:
By the way i think there are
3: Romano/Grecan
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no such thing; genetically, the Greeks are a branch of middle eastern dispersion; Italians in the north and central area are more rleated to ther celts and Illyrians genetically. (Though th emiddle eastern Y-chromasome marker occures in southe ritaly up to around 20% because of the massivness of greek coloniztion in prior ages, and in souther spain up to 10%)

that said, i really dont know my opiniosn regarding race; I dont think it important, all said; though different races exhibit slightlly different traits, but not all that significant differences are found, and it has impacted history greatlly; but if the thing actually exists? hard to say.
 
In my eyes:

Western European
Eastern European
Indian
Native American
Oriental
Latino
African
Pacific Islander
 
pboily said:
...are Filipino's asians?
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Yes. My girlfriend's father was Filipino. Her mother is Mexican, which means her mother is a mix of Spanish and Aztec. That makes my girlfriend 1/2 Asian, 1/4 European, and 1/4 North American. When we first started dating, though, she asked me if I had ever dated an Asian woman before. I think she thinks of herself as Asian, because she looks more like her Filipino dad, than her Mexican mother.

To complicate things further, her brother married a Korean lady. Their 3 kids are 1/2 Korean, 1/4 Filipino, 1/8 Aztec & 1/8 Spanish! Nice looking kids though. :)
 
3 posters already considered "Latino" to be an ethnic gorup, which is absurd.
Is there an "American" or "Canadian" ethnic group?
Latin America is by no means a homegeneous continent. There are all ethnicities here. In Mexico and most of Central America, over 90% of the population is mixed spanish/indian. In Argentina, Uruguay and the southern Brazilian states, over 90% of the population is white(spanish and italian in Uruguay and Argentina, italian and german in southern Brazil, mostly). In the brazilian state of Bahía over 80% of the population is black or mulatto. In the brazilian southeast there are people from all imaginable ethnic groups, and their respective combinations. So it's ridiculous to lump the whole continent together in some faceless ethnic group.

Personally I think that it is useless to classify people according to ethnicity, but if we're going to do it, let's make some sense!
 
Personally, I think Noah's 3 sons, were married to: a Negroid woman, a Caucasian woman, and a Mongoloid woman. That is how we wound up with the 3 main races. Noah didn't have a 4th son who could marry a blue woman, so they died out. ;)
 
Luckily, the whole BS with classificating humans into races pretty much ceased with the Nazi regime here.
That's not comparing the US system with the Nazis; but the fact it contains a race called 'others' tells enough about its shortcomings.

And I fully agree with luiz about waht a nonsense it is to call everyone from S of Texas a 'Latino'.
 
In the world, 1. Humans.

However, there are ethnicities, which can be considered to be subdivisions of the race. The US Census classifications are OK for the US, but this would be better for the sake of the Census' accuracy:

1. White
2. Black or African American
3. American Indian and Alaskan Native
4. East or Central Asian
5. South Asian
6. Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander
7. Latino
8. Arab-American/Middle Eastern--If Latinos are, so are we!
9. Australian
10. Then Other.

Possibly Southeast Asian should be added, as well.

You should be allowed to mark multiple things
 
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