How do you classify race?

[silverman]

Here is how I classify people and race;


Indigenous Europeans: The majority of people who originated from Europe and Russia. Often called the white race and belongs to the Caucasoid family of races.

Indigenous Middle Easterners: The majority of People who originated from the Middle East, North Africa, and the Indian Subcontinent. Often called the brown race and belong to the Caucasoid family of races, although most of this race group has some trace of another race (such as Indians).

Indigenous Oriental Asians: The majority of people who originated from Central Asia and Southeast Asia such as China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, ect. Often called the yellow race and belongs to the Mongoloid family of races.

Indigenous Americans: The Native American people that made up North and South America before the West came. Often called the red race and belongs to the Mongoloid family of races.

Indigenous Africans: The majority of people who originated from Sub-Sahara Africa, Central Africa, and South Africa. Often called the black race and belongs to the Negroid family of races.

Other Races: Australoids and Capoids maybe distinct family of races but the two are a rare race and are dying out (sadly). The hispanic race isn't really a race, most are mix between European Whites and Native American (with some having African blood).

How do you classify the various races?

[silverman]

some here are quite the quiet bunch

[osservatore]

silverman said:

Here is how I classify people and race;


Indigenous Europeans: The majority of people who originated from Europe and Russia. Often called the white race and belongs to the Caucasoid family of races.

Indigenous Middle Easterners: The majority of People who originated from the Middle East, North Africa, and the Indian Subcontinent. Often called the brown race and belong to the Caucasoid family of races, although most of this race group has some trace of another race (such as Indians).

I don't do dsitnction between europeans and other caucasoid. No offence meant, but it seems quite silly from my point of view.
I have lebanese, palestinians and syrians friends who are absolutely undestinguishable from us italians.
Of course there are people from what for us is NearEast (and obviously India e North Africa) who are clearly distinguishable at first sight, but simply you can't draw a line between "them" and "us".
So those two groups look t ome as being only one.
I don't feel more similar to a Nord then I am to Moroccan.

Ciao!

[aroundtheworld]

Are Capoids Bushmen? Are they the ancestors to SE Asians/Polynesians?

[asdf]

Yes two the first and no the second and why would you think that?

[Batrus]

Maybe because they are both deemed the most primitives.

[asdf]

Australids are.

[Soomaal]

Somalis,(ethiopians) habashis and other africans, Arabs, Indians, Orientals and Europeans.

[aroundtheworld]

seizure said:

Yes two the first and no the second and why would you think that?

I think that b/c (1) Polynesians claim those Capoids as their ancestors. They say many of them explored the Pacific and settled there and mixed with native people to create present-day Polynesians. They do not deny any ancient African ancestry.

(2) Capoids look a lot like native Melanesian/Polynesian people including tradition, dance, clothing,language, etc.

[merxa]

aroundtheworld said:

seizure said:

Yes two the first and no the second and why would you think that?

I think that b/c (1) Polynesians claim those Capoids as their ancestors. They say many of them explored the Pacific and settled there and mixed with native people to create present-day Polynesians. They do not deny any ancient African ancestry.

(2) Capoids look a lot like native Melanesian/Polynesian people including tradition, dance, clothing,language, etc.

All evidence points to an East Asian population expanding from Taiwan and intermixing with a Papuan like individuals and spreading the Austonesian languages all over Oceania. The y-chromosomes and mtDNA of Polynesians are mainly derived from two sources, one from Oceania and another from East Eurasia. All Eurasians including Papuans and Australians descended from an ancient East African population that left Africa 65,000 years ago. This excludes Capoids, as their gene pool is ancestral to all humans, even to that of the Ancient East African population. Specifically, a portion of the Polynesians gene pool is similar to that of Papuans and dissimilar to that of Australian and Negrito groups, as their size would indicate. All of this is inconsistent with recent gene flow from Africa, regarding “Capoids”.

[aroundtheworld]

^^Ok, I see. But they sure look similar tho-especially some fijians.

[merxa]

aroundtheworld said:

^^Ok, I see. But they sure look similar tho-especially some fijians.

That phenotype that exists in Africans, Melanesians and many Negrito groups is extremely common, and it’s presence in many unrelated human groups, is no accident. In fact, I wouldn’t mind calling that phenotype “the default phenotype for Sapiens”. Think about it, if Sapiens originated in Africa 200,000 years ago and only left 60,000 years, why shouldn’t there people reminiscent of the first humans, and therefore look African. In fact there are; Africans, Melanesians, and Negrito are those people. When Proto-Eurasians migrated to New-Guinea, there was little difference from Africa, consequently there was no selective pressure to change phenotype, and those people remained looking African. Other Proto-Eurasians, made Northern and Central and South Asia their home, and there was pressure for these humans to adapt in response to a different and diverse climate condition. These Humans are the ancestors of Mongoloids, Indians and Caucasians.