How many races in the world?

[Xen]

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

Latinos are a combination of native AMercians, and Caucasian colonists; Arabs/middle easterns are part of "Caucasian"

 

[Plotinus]

It's even dafter to call anyone east of Israel "Asian". What, so Japanese are racially identical to Indians, are they?

[Quasar] If it were true that the three main categories of races were descended from Noah's sons all marrying racially different wives, then wouldn't that mean that the three races were more different before the Flood than after it? Because the children of Noah's sons would all be half-and-half, as it were - half Noah's race and half the race of the son's wife. Of course, they'd all have to marry their siblings, so as not to mix with their cousins...

 

[Xen]

It's even dafter to call anyone east of Israel "Asian". What, so Japanese are racially identical to Indians, are they?

thsi remainds me, a distinction shoudl probabley be made for Dravidians

 

[Gabryel Karolin]

Its very hard to say since political correctness in the West does not really recognize "race" as such.

Of course there should be only one race, that race being "human".

I also dont see how people can say that there is only one "race" in Africa.

I would say European peoples can be divided into:

Slav
Germanic
Finno-Ugrish
Celt
Bulgar/Magyar
Iberian

No idea whether Italians and Greeks can be said to belong to any distinctive people.

Oh, and we also have small more or less assimilated groups of for example Lapp, Basque, Romani and Pict.

And Arabic influences in Greece/Balkans/Iberia.

Very confusing dividing people into races and a very outdated way of categorizing people anyways .

 

[blindside]

Its very hard to say since political correctness in the West does not really recognize "race" as such.

Of course there should be only one race, that race being "human".

I also dont see how people can say that there is only one "race" in Africa.

I would say European peoples can be divided into:

Slav
Germanic
Finno-Ugrish
Celt
Bulgar/Magyar
Iberian

No idea whether Italians and Greeks can be said to belong to any distinctive people.

Oh, and we also have small more or less assimilated groups of for example Lapp, Basque, Romani and Pict.

And Arabic influences in Greece/Balkans/Iberia.

Very confusing dividing people into races and a very outdated way of categorizing people anyways .

In that case you're dividing them by their language groups. Yet people of different origin can speak the same language.

 

[Gabryel Karolin]

Yes, especially nowadays. However ethnical homogenity and language goes hand in hand.

 

[luiz]

Latinos are a combination of native AMercians, and Caucasian colonists; Arabs/middle easterns are part of "Caucasian"

Not all latin-americans are a combination of native americans and caucasian colonists. In Brazil, the most populous nation of the continent, the group you refer to is only a small minority, actually. Not to mention Argentina and Uruguay.

 

[Princeps]

There is five races of man.

Caucasoid (Europeans, arabs, persians ETC)
Negroid (sub-africans and black americans...)
Mongoloid (Chinese, Japanese, Mongols etc)
Capoid (I don't remember where)
Australoid (sp?) (Australian aboriginals)

Of course there is hundreds of sub-races.

 

[Reno]

There is five races of man.

Those are ethnicities, there's only one Human race.

 

[Louis XXIV]

There's only one human species (not race) still around

 

[Communisto]

Of course there is hundreds of sub-races.

sub races? so you are infering there are inferior races!?

 

[Marla_Singer]

There are either one human race or 6,446,131,400 different races.

 

[Bluemofia]

There are either one human race or 6,446,131,400 different races.

Well, only if you put it as unique beings, with the exception of itentical twins.

 

[Ahasuerus]

Race is simply a means of classifying human populations using whatever system you choose. No one can deny that "race" exists, but wether these classifications are meaningful is the real debate.

I would say that classical definitions of race aren't totally without use. I mean, companies are making medicines now that target specific "races" that supposedly don't exist.

 

[sydhe]

If you must separate races:
1) Caucasian
2) Negroid
3) Mongoloid
4) Australoid
5) Khoisan
A sixth race, 6) Tasmanian existed as pure-bloods as late as the 19th century, and there are still people with a lot of Tasmanian blood.
The Pygmies may be a seventh.

 

[Dolemitetornado]

I don't think "race" is a useful concept for discussing much of anything to be quite frank. Its pretty much become a useless term. One CAN talk about "ethnicity", ie a combination of cultural traits and self-identity, one can also talk about a linguistic heritage, and you can also look at people based on their physical differences, however, I don't think "race" as its commonly understood is helpful here. Human genetic variation doesn't begin or end at any point, "Negroids" flow seamlessly into the "Caucasoid" area, etc, etc. Saying that there is only "one race" is I think misleading, because a: your still working with the idea of "race", and b: it doesn't answer the real, scientifically reasonable question of why and how there are (VERY SLIGHT) biological differences among humans. I'm sure that with the increases in knwoledge regrading human genetics will reveal some very interesting things about human history, however, I don't expect this to be connected to "races" as we've commonly understood them.

 

[Jeff Yu]

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.

In the US, Latino is counted seperately from everything else. That is, the census question asks if one is white, black, asian, Indian, Alaskain native, etc, and then asks seperately if that person is Hispanic/Latino. It's a way for the US to keep track on the Spanish-speaking population of the US. I can't remember about the census, but when applying for universities or government financial aid, the category "Asian", unlike the others contains several subcategories, as the census people keep track of individual Asian populations like Filipino, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, and so on.

 

[YNCS]

I don't think "race" is a useful concept for discussing much of anything to be quite frank. Its pretty much become a useless term. One CAN talk about "ethnicity", ie a combination of cultural traits and self-identity, one can also talk about a linguistic heritage, and you can also look at people based on their physical differences [remainder of quote omitted]

I have to agree with this.

Even the physical differences are not what they seem. I am white (English and Middle European ancestry). However, while I can give a blood transfusion to the majority of Australian aborigines (my blood type is A+, which is what most aborigines have), I cannot give a blood transfusion to my daughter, who has O- blood. In this respect, I am closer to most aborigines than I am to my own child.

 

[Princeps]

sub races? so you are infering there are inferior races!?

No, no, not inferior, not lower or inferior categories but smaller categories.

Anyway, here is good link

(i'm not a nazi!)

 

[Gladi]

Bright day
What is the purpose of this?
Anyway we learn in school about three main races: Europoid, Mongoloid and Negroid. But they are not clear cut, they spill over. (But Semits and Hamits are white- on my race map Chadians, Sudanese, Ethiopians and Somalis are being labeled as "interrace" along with modern Dravids of India)

Oh somebody asked about Dravids (I do not know english spelling). In modern times they are in my school book as Europoid/Negroid interrace, in ancient times they were fully negroid.

Btw I do not know how much I can trust that book- it lists people of Later Indian peninsula, Indonesians and Japanese as Mongoloid/Negroid interrace...