What race are Japanese?

The Yamato people are the dominant native ethnic group of Japan and because of their numbers, the term Yamato is often used interchangeably with the term Japanese.
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What is your race if you're Japanese?

Race Categories

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 race is China and Japan?

East Asians is a term used for ethnic groups that are indigenous to East Asia, which consists of Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, and South Korea.
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Are Chinese and Japanese different races?

Since the population diverged, the present-day Han Chinese, Japanese and Korean populations have built their own gene pools and formed distinct genetic makeups. This means that individual ethnicity of the three East Asian groups is distinguishable in genetics if personal genome data are available.
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What ethnicity is closest to Japanese?

From the point of view of genetic studies, Japanese people: descend from both the Yayoi people and the heterogeneous Jōmon population. are genetically most similar to Ryukyuans, Ainu people and Koreans as well as other East Asian people.
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Ethnic Origin of the Japanese



Is Japanese closer to Korean or Chinese?

Further, the Koreans are more closely related to the Japanese and quite distant from the Chinese. The above evidence of the origin of Koreans fits well with the ethnohistoric account of the origin of Koreans and the Korean language. The minority Koreans in China also maintained their genetic identity.
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Are the Japanese inbred?

This would suggest that the average modern day Japanese is descended from about 16% of the population of the 6th c Japan. This, contrary to expectations, is less inbreeding than for the other regions/countries. The value for Japan, using the known value of R for Japan, is 0.91%.
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How many races are there?

The world population can be divided into 4 major races, namely white/Caucasian, Mongoloid/Asian, Negroid/Black, and Australoid. This is based on a racial classification made by Carleton S.
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What are the 6 ethnic groups?

While many nations in Africa, Asia, and South America can claim literally hundreds of distinct ethnic groups within its borders, the US Census only recognizes six ethnic categories: white, black, Asian, Amerindian/Alaska native, native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, and mixed ethnicity. That's it.
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Who are Japanese ancestors?

Abstract. Prehistoric Japan underwent rapid transformations in the past 3000 years, first from foraging to wet rice farming and then to state formation. A long-standing hypothesis posits that mainland Japanese populations derive dual ancestry from indigenous Jomon hunter-gatherer-fishers and succeeding Yayoi farmers.
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Is Japan a nationality?

Japanese nationality can be acquired in three ways: birth, notification, and naturalization. If the father or mother is a Japanese national at the time of birth. If the father died before the child's birth and was a Japanese national at the time of death.
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Are Korean and Japanese the same?

Korean and Japanese are two different languages that are used in two different countries. The countries of Japan and Korea are geographically very close to each other. Upon their first glance, many people think two languages look similar. They assume the countries and their cultures are similar, too.
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What are the 5 races?

OMB requires that race data be collectd for a minimum of five groups: White, Black or African American, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, and Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander.
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What race is Korean?

'Korean race'; see names of Korea) are an East Asian ethnic group native to the Korean Peninsula. Koreans mainly live in the two Korean states: North Korea and South Korea (collectively and simply referred to as just Korea). Koreans are considered the fifteenth-largest ethnic group in the world.
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What are the 3 human races?

The Geographic Isolation and the Three Great Human Races . In the last 5,000- 7,000 of years, the geographic barrier split our species into three major races (presented in Figure 9): Negroid (or Africans), Caucasoid (or Europeans) and Mongoloid (or Asians).
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What are 10 different races?

Definitions for Racial and Ethnic Categories
  • American Indian or Alaska Native. ...
  • Asian. ...
  • Black or African American. ...
  • Hispanic or Latino. ...
  • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander. ...
  • White.
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What is my race if I am Mexican?

Hispanic or Latino

Chicano – Includes people born in the United States with Mexican ancestry. States. Many Latinos have come from Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Cuba and/or South America. Mexican – Includes all citizens of Mexico regardless of race.
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What are the 7 races of the world?

The Revisions to OMB Directive 15 defines each racial and ethnic category as follows:
  • American Indian or Alaska Native. ...
  • Asian. ...
  • Black or African American. ...
  • Hispanic or Latino. ...
  • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander. ...
  • White.
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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 race is Egyptian?

Ethnic groups. The population of the Nile valley and delta, which are home to the overwhelming majority of Egyptians, forms a fairly homogeneous group whose dominant physical characteristics are the result of the admixture of the indigenous African population with those of Arab ancestry.
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What race are Okinawans?

The native Okinawans, densely populating the Ryukyus, are a mixture of Ainu, Malayan, Korean, Chinese, and Japanese stock. Okinawa itself has a population of approximately 450,000, mostly ethnic Okinawans and concentrated in the southern half of the island. For many centuries the islands were under Chinese domination.
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What is the most inbred country?

Data on inbreeding in several contemporary human populations are compared, showing the highest local rates of inbreeding to be in Brazil, Japan, India, and Israel.
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Are Japanese native to Japan?

The Japanese people (Japanese: 日本人, Hepburn: nihonjin) are an ethnic group that is native to the Japanese archipelago and modern country of Japan, where they constitute 98.1% of the country's population.
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What is the hardest language to learn?

1. Mandarin Chinese. Interestingly, the hardest language to learn is also the most widely spoken native language in the world. Mandarin Chinese is challenging for a number of reasons.
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What's the difference in appearance between Chinese and Japanese?

One of the primary difference between the Japanese and the Chinese faces is their complexion. Although majority of them seem to have a similar white or red complexion, the Japanese living in the northern japan have a pale complexion on their faces.
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