HUMAN RACES What is RACE A human

HUMAN RACES

What is RACE? A human race is defined as a group of people with certain common inherited features that distinguish them from other groups of people. First used to refer to speakers of a common language and then to denote national affiliations, in the 17 th century. Starting from the 19 th century, the term was used in a taxonomic sense, to denote human populations defined by phenotype.

Classification of human races There many different ideas about classification of human races, some divide up to 30 different groups. Most common is the division of human being into 3 big race groups: 1. Caucasian ethnicity (European/Eurasian) 2. Mongoloid race (Asian-American) 3. Negroid (Australasian-Equatorial)

Caucasian ethnicity (European/Eurasian) The people of this race are characterized by light skin, straight or wavy light brown or dark brown hair, gray-green, hazel and blue wide open eyes, moderately developed chin, a narrow protruding nose, lips not thick, well developed scalp on the face of men.

Mongoloid race (Asian-American) Mongolians have a yellow or yellow-brown skin. characterized by dark straight hair tight, widely flattened broad face, narrow and slightly slanted brown eyes with a fold of the upper eyelid in the inner corner of the eye (epicanthus), flat and rather broad nose, sparse vegetation on the face and body.

Negroid (Australasian. Equatorial) Negroid ethnicity are dark-skinned, curly dark hair, broad, flat nose, brown or black eyes, sparse vegetation on the face and body.

Race or ethnic groups All races share 99. 99+% of the same genetic materials The United Nations, in a 1950 statement, opted to “drop the term ‘race’ altogether and speak of “ethnic groups”. In this case, there are more than 5, 000 ethnic groups in the world, according to a 1998 study published in the Scientific American.

Racism is the belief that characteristics and abilities can be attributed to people simply on the basis of their race and that some racial groups are superior to others. Racism and discrimination have been used as powerful weapons encouraging fear or hatred of others in times of conflict and war, and even during economic downturns.

All races share 99. 99+% of the same genetic materials which means that division of race is largely subjective

All humans are the same Race is a modern idea. Race has no genetic basis. Human subspecies don’t exist. Skin color is only skin deep. Most variation is within, not between, “races. ” Slavery predates race. Race justified social inequalities as natural. Race isn’t biological, but racism is real. Colorblindness will not end racism.