-
Welcome to Religious Forums, a friendly forum to discuss all religions in a friendly surrounding.
Your voice is missing! You will need to register to get access to the following site features:- Reply to discussions and create your own threads.
- Our modern chat room. No add-ons or extensions required, just login and start chatting!
- Access to private conversations with other members.
We hope to see you as a part of our community soon!
The 109 Races Of The Earth
- Thread starter dreambeliever
- Start date
YmirGF
Bodhisattva in Recovery
I'm trying to figure out what the point is supposed to be. I'm not very smart though, so maybe you could educate me.
I think you are off by about 108
There is a difference between "Ethnicity" and "Race". I think this depicts ethnicity.
Race is broadly White, Black and "Yellow" (um, sorry Asian folks!)
Ethnicity is these same groups broken down, i.e, Whites into Germans, Russians, Romanians, Polish, Greek &c.
Yellows into Chinese, Korean, Malay &c.
Blacks into Nigerian, Sub-Saharan, Libyan &c.
Race is broadly White, Black and "Yellow" (um, sorry Asian folks!)
Ethnicity is these same groups broken down, i.e, Whites into Germans, Russians, Romanians, Polish, Greek &c.
Yellows into Chinese, Korean, Malay &c.
Blacks into Nigerian, Sub-Saharan, Libyan &c.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Wouldn't DNA mapping provide a better picture?
This may be the way you see things, but it is entirely subjective. Hardly universal and not objectively correct.There is a difference between "Ethnicity" and "Race". I think this depicts ethnicity.
Race is broadly White, Black and "Yellow" (um, sorry Asian folks!)
Ethnicity is these same groups broken down, i.e, Whites into Germans, Russians, Romanians, Polish, Greek &c.
Yellows into Chinese, Korean, Malay &c.
Blacks into Nigerian, Sub-Saharan, Libyan &c.
What is your definition? And don't give me that crap about Race not existing.
How is it crap?
If you ask me a question you can't at the same time tell me what I can or cannot say.
Desert Snake
Veteran Member
These definitions only hold up some of the time. They're broad generalizations which have more ''problems'' than good usage.There is a difference between "Ethnicity" and "Race". I think this depicts ethnicity.
Race is broadly White, Black and "Yellow" (um, sorry Asian folks!)
Ethnicity is these same groups broken down, i.e, Whites into Germans, Russians, Romanians, Polish, Greek &c.
Yellows into Chinese, Korean, Malay &c.
Blacks into Nigerian, Sub-Saharan, Libyan &c.
There is no such thing as "white", "black" or "yellow" "races". Those are all social constructs. A Celt is not the same as a Slav and a Ghanaian is not the same as a Somalian and a Thai is not the same as Japanese. Then it could be broken down even more into the various tribes within those larger ethnicities.There is a difference between "Ethnicity" and "Race". I think this depicts ethnicity.
Race is broadly White, Black and "Yellow" (um, sorry Asian folks!)
Ethnicity is these same groups broken down, i.e, Whites into Germans, Russians, Romanians, Polish, Greek &c.
Yellows into Chinese, Korean, Malay &c.
Blacks into Nigerian, Sub-Saharan, Libyan &c.
Racism is bigotry based on an illusion that doesn't exist biologically.
We may be muddling definitions. What is a race, to you?
"Black", "white" and "yellow" do not exist, biologically. There are no clear racial delineations between human populations, especially ones that can be clearly divided into monolithic groups. Gender doesn't biologically exist, either, only sex does (and I say that as a transsexual).
A good quote which describes this:
"By the 1970s, it had become clear that (1) most human differences were cultural; (2) what was not cultural was principally polymorphic – that is to say, found in diverse groups of people at different frequencies; (3) what was not cultural or polymorphic was principally clinal – that is to say, gradually variable over geography; and (4) what was left – the component of human diversity that was not cultural, polymorphic, or clinal – was very small.
A consensus consequently developed among anthropologists and geneticists that race as the previous generation had known it – as largely discrete, geographically distinct, gene pools – did not exist."
This does, of course, leave room race as a cultural construct.
Incidentally, I'd like to show a picture of this man:
This man is a Syrian Arab. He was one of the closest men to Osama bin Laden for some time.
"By the 1970s, it had become clear that (1) most human differences were cultural; (2) what was not cultural was principally polymorphic – that is to say, found in diverse groups of people at different frequencies; (3) what was not cultural or polymorphic was principally clinal – that is to say, gradually variable over geography; and (4) what was left – the component of human diversity that was not cultural, polymorphic, or clinal – was very small.
A consensus consequently developed among anthropologists and geneticists that race as the previous generation had known it – as largely discrete, geographically distinct, gene pools – did not exist."
This does, of course, leave room race as a cultural construct.
Incidentally, I'd like to show a picture of this man:
This man is a Syrian Arab. He was one of the closest men to Osama bin Laden for some time.
@Saint Frankenstein : Sorry, yes, I use gender and sex interchangeably.
@Kirran : My idea of Race is Race is a meta-ethnicity. I.e, Latin Race (Spaniards, Italians, Sardians etc), Slavic Race (Serbs, Croats, Czech etc.), Germanic Race (Anglo-Saxons, Dutch, German etc.), and also on a broader scale, White, Black, Asian. The groups that cluster together. Nobody can honestly tell me that he/she doesn't look at an Asian person and know that he is from, say, Japan. Did you watch the video?
Are there human races? « Why Evolution Is True
@Kirran : My idea of Race is Race is a meta-ethnicity. I.e, Latin Race (Spaniards, Italians, Sardians etc), Slavic Race (Serbs, Croats, Czech etc.), Germanic Race (Anglo-Saxons, Dutch, German etc.), and also on a broader scale, White, Black, Asian. The groups that cluster together. Nobody can honestly tell me that he/she doesn't look at an Asian person and know that he is from, say, Japan. Did you watch the video?
Are there human races? « Why Evolution Is True
Last edited: