What are the different races of humans?

The world population can be divided into 4 major races, namely white/Caucasian, Mongoloid
Mongoloid
Mongoloid was a word for a person from East Asia, Southeast Asia, the Arctic, the Americas or the Pacific Islands. The group of these persons was called Mongoloid race. In former times, many people divided human beings into three races. These races were called Mongoloid, Caucasoid, and Negroid.
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/Asian, Negroid/Black, and Australoid
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What are the 6 human races?

Buffon (1749) was a monogenist and introduced the term 'race' in natural history and classified humans into six race categories: Laplander, Tartar, South Asiatic, European, Ethiopian, American based on skin colour, stature, and bodily figure (Molnar, 2006).
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What are 10 different races?

Race
  • White.
  • Black or African American.
  • Asian.
  • American Indian or Alaska Native.
  • Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander.
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What are the 5 races of the world?

(A) The old concept of the “five races:” African, Asian, European, Native American, and Oceanian. According to this view, variation between the races is large, and thus, the each race is a separate category. Additionally, individual races are thought to have a relatively uniform genetic identity.
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What are the different types of human races?

The revised standards contain five minimum categories for race: American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, Black or African American, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, and White. There are two categories for ethnicity: "Hispanic or Latino" and "Not Hispanic or Latino."
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What is my race if I am Mexican?

Ethnicity Categories

Hispanic or Latino: A person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race.
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Are there only 3 races?

Today, scientists agree that there is only one human race. Modern genetic research has shown that the idea of three (or four, or five) races was wrong.
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What is the race of an Indian?

Asian – A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam.
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What is the oldest race in the world?

An unprecedented DNA study has found evidence of a single human migration out of Africa and confirmed that Aboriginal Australians are the world's oldest civilization.
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How many races are there on Earth?

Most anthropologists recognize 3 or 4 basic races of man in existence today. These races can be further subdivided into as many as 30 subgroups.
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What races make up African American?

On average, African Americans are of West/Central African with some European descent; some also have Native American and other ancestry. According to U.S. Census Bureau data, African immigrants generally do not self-identify as African American.
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What is ethnicity vs race?

Race is defined as “a category of humankind that shares certain distinctive physical traits.” The term ethnicities is more broadly defined as “large groups of people classed according to common racial, national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural origin or background.”
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What race are Lebanese?

Ethnically, the Lebanese compose a mixture in which Phoenician, Greek, Armenian, and Arab elements are discernible. Within the larger Lebanese community, ethnic minorities including Armenian and Kurdish populations are also present.
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Where did Caucasian come from?

The use of Caucasian to mean white was popularized in the late 18th century by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, a German anthropologist, who decreed that it encompassed Europeans and the inhabitants of a region reaching from the Obi River in Russia to the Ganges to the Caspian Sea, plus northern Africans.
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What is the largest race in the world?

The world's largest ethnic group is Han Chinese, with Mandarin being the world's most spoken language in terms of native speakers.
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What is the oldest DNA ever found?

The code has been copied to your clipboard. Scientists say they have discovered the oldest DNA on record. It was found in the teeth of mammoths that lived in northeastern Siberia up to 1.2 million years ago.
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When did humans first leave Africa?

About 2 million years ago, the first of our ancestors moved northwards from their homelands and out of Africa.
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Is Caucasian the same as White?

In the United States, the root term Caucasian is still in use as a synonym for white or of European, Middle Eastern, or North African ancestry, a usage that has been criticized.
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What race are Turkish people?

The Turkish people, or simply the Turks (Turkish: Türkler), are the world's largest Turkic ethnic group; they speak various dialects of the Turkish language and form a majority in Turkey and Northern Cyprus.
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What race are Tamils?

The Tamil people, also known as Tamilar (Tamil: தமிழர், romanized: Tamiḻar, pronounced [t̪amiɻaɾ] in the singular or தமிழர்கள், Tamiḻarkaḷ, [t̪amiɻaɾɣaɭ] in the plural), or simply Tamils (/ˈtæmɪls/), are a Dravidian ethno-linguistic group who trace their ancestry mainly to India's southern state of Tamil Nadu, union ...
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How do you determine your race?

The Census Bureau defines race as a person's self-identification with one or more social groups. An individual can report as White, Black or African American, Asian, American Indian and Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, or some other race. Survey respondents may report multiple races.
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Are Italians Latino?

"Latino" does not include speakers of Romance languages from Europe, such as Italians or Spaniards, and some people have (tenuously) argued that it excludes Spanish speakers from the Caribbean.
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What race are Dominicans?

Ethnicity. The population of the Dominican Republic is predominantly of mixed African and European ethnicity, and there are small Black and white minorities.
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What am I if my parents are Mexican but I was born in the US?

Chicano – Includes people born in the United States with Mexican ancestry. States.
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