People did not become white until they came to America and did not become black until they came to America. I don't get it. Only white people come from America and Canada. Only black people come from America and Canada. People in France would be a different race than me just like someone in Haiti would be a different race from a black common sense people.
2006-10-01 04:14:36 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
People are all different hues. Doesn't matter where they are born, national origin, the faith they were or were not baptised into, or anything else your nonsensical question would or would not imply.
2006-10-01 04:19:12 · answer #1 · answered by submariner662 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You make absolutely no sense. Race has nothing to do with nationality. You're confused. There are 4 distinct scientific races on this earth: black, white, asian, and indian. These races have interbred and moved/settled to various regions throughout history; creating, conquoring, and destroying nations, etc. Many nations maintain a large racial majority and identity (ie China) while others are melting pots (United States). Regardless, nationality is not the same as race.
2006-10-01 04:16:08 · answer #2 · answered by surfinthedesert 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't mean to be rude but that sounds like the stupidest question I've ever come across here. White people are always white, American, Canadian, European, wherever they are, they are always white. Black people are always black, no matter what country. Its not common sense you're using, its moronic illogical nonsense. A race is a race genetically, not by nationality.
2006-10-01 04:18:20 · answer #3 · answered by Aloofly Goofy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I understand what you are trying to ask, I think. The racial concepts of "black" and "white" were created during the trans-Atlantic slave trade between Africa and the Americas. The concepts were created to polarize groups of people in order to facilitate a superior/inferior construction. The U.S. was built on such dichotomous racial constructs. Racial constructs differ from country to country, culture to culture. I think you will now find them all over the world, thanks largely to the legacy of European colonialism, but they vary in how they operate and how integral they are to the functioning of a society. That's how people outside of the U.S. can be categorized as black or white (though it can have a very different meaning and importance than it does in the U.S.). Since race is purely a social (NOT scientific) construct, it has no ultimate, unmovable truth to it. There is only ONE scientific race of human beings: Homo sapiens. That's it! There are NO scientific "sub-races". The only sub-species of Homo sapiens is Homo sapiens sapiens, of which EVERY human now on Earth is a part!
2006-10-02 06:19:58 · answer #4 · answered by Fuzzyblue 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are saying the lable White and the lable Black only apply in the US and Canada.
Yes in the US it is used to divide the people for political advantage. Politicans like to put people in groups to play them against each other for the politicans benefit.
Unfortunately people allow this to happen.
2006-10-01 06:32:16 · answer #5 · answered by rjf 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure if you are trying to ask the question about the way people are defined, or labled by their colour in America...if not then i'm even more confused than you, but obviously it was an important question to you...otherwise you would not have asked it, sorry i cant be of any more use than that.
2006-10-01 04:21:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
people are different in the world some black ,some white and....but it is important that allof them have the same feeling they cry the same they smile the same and they have created in the same way .no important that we are black or white but it is important that all of us have one god .the guys of Adam are like the parts of a body when one part is painfull the other parts feel pain too.
2006-10-01 05:33:57 · answer #7 · answered by rahimi997 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, you can tell from my photo that I am definitely white. White-face is a tradition that comes from the Harlequin tradition of Europe.
2006-10-01 04:24:00 · answer #8 · answered by Clown Knows 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
history 101:
the western world was discovered mainly by europeans (mainly british, spanish, and irish, portugese) everyone else just flocked over to get away from wars.
go to the library and you can find a heap of history books on how the world has been shaped as it is today.
2006-10-01 04:18:03 · answer #9 · answered by Michael M 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You need to re-think this question. Your question is whack, it does not make any kind of sense at all. There one truth we are all human beings and belong to the human race.
2006-10-01 04:24:56 · answer #10 · answered by mysticideas 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋