What defines a person's race?
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You made a very good point. We are all varying degrees of the same color, but for the sake of colonization, they had to make distinctions to clarify that "we are better than them, because..." Go do some research on how the whole classification of the races came about. You'll be enlightened by what you find.\n\nRace is just a handy way of justifying/maintaining the power of one group over another, of knowing who to hate. Take what's going on in this country right now, for instance. Attacks on muslims have been primarily, if not totally, on the proverbial "Arab-looking" guys, dark skin, etc. But there are muslims in europe who are regular ol' white guys. Did anyone randomly attack regular looking ol' white guys in the aftermath of 9-11? Nope.\n\nI believe that human beings have an innate need to feel superior to someone else. Some of us are able to surpress that feeling and even understand that we have it. Others have it coursing through their veins. If a radioactive meteor were to smash into the earth tomorrow and turn everyone blue, people with big ears would start trying to dominate people with small ears.
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Categorizing people by their heritage or race is not racist. There is a right way and a wrong way to refer to ones race. Common sense should tell you the difference between a racial slur as opposed to a description.
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By definition, there cannot be a "smarter race" amongs humans, and that is because races DO NOT EXIST in the human species. The differences in the genetic makeup of individuals amongst the human species is just SO small that people cannot be truly classified under "Races", like for example with dogs. It is said that there is a chance that you are genetically more similar to a black person than you might be to another white person. And it is also thought that most "Racial" traits are but adaptation to different environments. Thus, it could be inferred that if Black people stayed on a cold weather, without much son for long enough time, their descendants would eventually be whiter with each passing generation.
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NOT THAT I KNOW! Because i have not really meet people of diferent races. Altougth i dont think nothing would change this answer, because i dont believe the race makes the people personality.
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it matters who the people r. not were they r from. thats being a racest
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The world is a beautiful patch work. Different races means different cultures, background, languages, histories, etc. That is fun to learn, experience and get to know. Teach us to be understanding, tolerant and help us grow as human beings... at least in theory.
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Human race. Pretty soon there will only be one race anyway so it would be a moot point.
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Becasue they are the chosen race
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probably a west african\n\nchart of skin color by area:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Map_of_skin_hue_equi.png
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Any mixed race. That's #1.
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There are many different ways to use the word "Race".  You could be describing the Human Race, or something as defined as the specific breed of person or animal.\n\nRace is described as follows:\n\nA local geographic or global human population distinguished as a more or less distinct group by genetically transmitted physical characteristics.\nA group of people united or classified together on the basis of common history, nationality, or geographic distribution: the German race.\nA genealogical line; a lineage.\nHumans considered as a group.\nBiology. \nAn interbreeding, usually geographically isolated population of organisms differing from other populations of the same species in the frequency of hereditary traits. A race that has been given formal taxonomic recognition is known as a subspecies.\nA breed or strain, as of domestic animals.\nA distinguishing or characteristic quality, such as the flavor of a wine.
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Part of it has to do with a persons race. The other part has to do with a persons health.
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Well, I don't like the term "coloured" for people that have dark skin. It's rude and it's wrong. Then what does that make me, clear? Invsible? Why do we have to pay so much attention to people's skin colour? Why can't we see people as people? We all breath, bleed and breed the same ways. I don't see a difference. I just see people.
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None, Race is a socially constructed idea and therefor has no numerical or sceintific requirements.
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White (also White people, White race or Whites) is a term used for a certain ethnic group or racial classification of people. Though literally implying light-skinned, "White" has been used in different ways at different times and places. Like other common words for the human ethnicities, its precise definition is somewhat unclear.\n\nA common connotation to the various definitions of "White" is that the term refers to people descended from European and adjacent areas, such as North Africa and the Middle East. Regions and countries that are today predominantly light skinned include all the countries of Europe, the Middle East, North America, parts of South America, Siberia, Australia and New Zealand.\n\nThe most recent United States Census (2000) defined the 'White' race as follows: "The term White refers to people having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa." It includes people who indicated their race or races as "White" or wrote in entries such as Irish, German, Italian, Israeli, Syrian, Lebanese, Portuguese, or Polish."\n\nThe term has always had various definitions and interpretations at different times and places. Across the globe, and especially throughout the Western Hemisphere, a person's inclusion or exclusion from the the "White" group has been affected by past or present colloquial, scientific and legal understandings, including definitions based for such purposes as censuses, anti-miscegenation laws, affirmative action, racial quotas. All these, and the groups they involve, are explored throughout the article.\n\nThe need for operational definitions\n\nLike aesthetic terms such as beauty and balance, religious terms such as sin and grace, and political terms such as liberal and conservative, the terms White and Black reflect something important in the minds of those who use them, even if they cannot be defined objectively so that their application can be independently tested. The claim that any specific individual is Black or White cannot be falsified, so the concept can have no scientific value unless some operational definition of how one determines that a person is White is given. In scientific studies, more precise definitions than "White" or "Black" are usually provided. For example, in the large collaborative study of the HapMap which includes Whites and Blacks among four populations being examined, the terms used are "whites of Western and Northern European descent residing in Utah", and "Yoruba people, residing in Ibadan, Nigeria".\n\nThere is no single, universally-accepted, biological trait that allows a yes/no determination of whether a person is White or not. The operational definitions used in scientific work are not "absolute" either, but rather vary in specificity according to the purposes of the study or of the hypotheses being tested, and are chosen partly as a matter of convenience and cost. The operations, for example, could range from how the subject answers questions about himself on a survey, to the response of a light meter held against the skin with a cut-off meter-reading specified, to which of several ancestry-informative markers are present in the genes of the individual. These may, of course, be used alone or in combination.\n\nA problem with the appearance definition alone is that, as routinely demonstrated in college-level cultural-anthropology classes, "racial" appearance is partly in the eye of the beholder. The same individual seen as White by a Cuban can be seen as Black by an American. Furthermore, such perceptions change over time. Appearance alone is not easy to quantify or judge with complete precision, and can, of course, be deceiving.\n\nA problem with the self-identity definition alone is that there are often advantages and privileges among racial categories, so people will sometimes choose one or another
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Races of Mankind\n\nDefinition: As used here, race means a division of mankind possessing in characteristic proportions certain combinations of physical traits that can be inherited and that are sufficient to set the group apart as a distinct human type. It should be noted, however, that the fact that the races are capable of intermarriage and reproduction shows that they are actually of one “kind,” all being members of the human family. So the various races are merely facets of the total variation possible in humankind.\n\nFrom where did the various races come?\n\nGen. 5:1, 2; 1:28: “In the day of God’s creating Adam he made him in the likeness of God. Male and female he created them. After that he blessed them and called their name Man [or, Mankind] in the day of their being created.” “God blessed them and God said to them: ‘Be fruitful and become many and fill the earth.’” (Thus all mankind are descendants of that first human pair, Adam and Eve.)\n\nActs 17:26: “[God] made out of one man [Adam] every nation of men, to dwell upon the entire surface of the earth.” (So, regardless of what races make up a nation, they all are offspring of Adam.)\n\nGen. 9:18, 19: “Noah’s sons who came out of the ark were Shem and Ham and Japheth. . . . These three were Noah’s sons, and from these was all the earth’s population spread abroad.” (After God destroyed the ungodly world by means of a global flood in Noah’s day, the earth’s new population, including all the races known today, developed from the offspring of Noah’s three sons and their wives.)\n\nWere Adam and Eve merely allegorical (fictional) persons?\n\nThe Bible does not support that view; see the main heading “Adam and Eve.”\n\nWhere did Cain get his wife if there was just one family?\n\nGen. 3:20: “Adam called his wife’s name Eve, because she had to become the mother of everyone living.” (So all humans were to be the offspring of Adam and Eve.)\n\nGen. 5:3, 4: “Adam lived on for a hundred and thirty years. Then he became father to a son in his likeness, in his image, and called his name Seth. And the days of Adam after his fathering Seth came to be eight hundred years. Meanwhile he became father to sons and daughters.” (One of Adam’s sons was Cain, and one of Adam’s daughters must have become Cain’s wife. At that time in human history when humans still had outstanding physical health and vitality, as indicated by the length of their lives, the likelihood of passing on defects as a result of marrying a close relative was not great. After some 2,500 years of human history, however, when mankind’s physical condition had greatly deteriorated, Jehovah gave to Israel laws forbidding incest.)\n\nGen. 4:16, 17: “Cain went away from the face of Jehovah and took up residence in the land of Fugitiveness [or, Nod] to the east of Eden. Afterward Cain had intercourse with his wife [“knew his wife,” that is, intimately so, KJ, RS; “lay with his wife,” NE] and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch.” (Notice that Cain did not first meet his wife in the land to which he fled, as if she were from another family. Rather, it was there that he had sexual relations with her to produce a son.)\n\nWhat explains the development of the various racial characteristics?\n\n“All men living today belong to a single species, Homo sapiens, and are derived from a common stock. . . . Biological differences between human beings are due to differences in hereditary constitution and to the influence of the environment on this genetic potential. In most cases, those differences are due to the interaction of these two sets of factors. . . . Differences between individuals within a race or within a population are often greater than the average differences between races or populations.”—An international body of scientists convened by UNESCO, quoted in Statement on Race (New York, 1972, third ed.), Ashley Montagu, pp. 149, 150.\n\n“A race
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Racism refers to "race", that is skin color and the configuration of human face. Disliking someone because of their nation is nationalism.