Is believing there are many races racist?

Question

It is a known fact there is only one race, the human race. The evidence is that people from different cultures can procreate and that traits are not specific to a group.

Answer 1

Race refers to those large divisions of humans into physical types determined by--skin colour, facial characteristics & other imponderables. Physical anthropologists have concluded that all such attempts to define clear-cut "races" are inexact, subjective & unscientific. So, to believe there are many "races" is a misnomer to start. The "human race" includes the whole, wonderfully diverse & indefinable collection of HUMANS. To be a "racist" is another ball game entirely.

Answer 2

Hello, although "the human race" signifies the one species to which we all belong, there are a great many races within the species. Throughout history, large groups of people have ALWAYS found ways to divide groups. I believe this is largely due to the way our brain processes information in categories and generalizations. A group distinction gives a set of assumptions (that may be wrong), which allows is to predict and respond without having to process every bit of information about someone from scratch (which would be overwhelming to do with every casual encounter). Not understanding that the assumptions are often wrong and that individuals differ much more within groups that groups differ with each other is where people get into trouble. Here is a snip from dictionary.com about race.
1. a group of persons related by common descent or heredity.
2. a population so related.
3. Anthropology. a. any of the traditional divisions of humankind, the commonest being the Caucasian, Mongoloid, and *****, characterized by supposedly distinctive and universal physical characteristics: no longer in technical use.
b. an arbitrary classification of modern humans, sometimes, esp. formerly, based on any or a combination of various physical characteristics, as skin color, facial form, or eye shape, and now frequently based on such genetic markers as blood groups.
c. a human population partially isolated reproductively from other populations, whose members share a greater degree of physical and genetic similarity with one another than with other humans.

4. a group of tribes or peoples forming an ethnic stock: the Slavic race.
5. any people united by common history, language, cultural traits, etc.: the Dutch race.

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Answer 3

Must be more to your question than what you asked.

There are many different races.
racist hate particular races of people.

Like some white hate black
some black hate white
most are taught and follow traditions.

then you have a large percentage of muslims who tend to hate all people not muslims--
that is religious based also racist.

BUT no racist is justified.
Not in any form-and one who says so is a liar to boot.

Answer 4

Kinda of an interesting question. I would say no. Recognizing differences in each other is perfectly fine. It is when a person starts to stereotype, or discriminate because of those differences that there is a problem.

Though it's been said 1,000 times, what makes us different is still what makes us unique. There are different races in the same sense that there are different cultures or languages. People look, act, and speak differently in all parts of the world. And that's perfectly fine, in fact, it's a very good thing!

The important thing is that we all try to understand one another as best we can, regardless of our differences.

Answer 5

One has to define what you mean by "race". As a purely genetic term to describe a distinct set of genetic traits, you have to decide if you are describing a subspecies or if you are describing something akin to what we think when using 'breed' to describe dogs. For dogs, 'race' is a useful term to describe the division between hounds, terriers and spaniels, a distinction between 'subspecies' and 'breed'.

We humans, however, have far less genetic variability than dogs do, and the term is less useful. When we speak of human races, we are really making the distinction of 'breed'.

Nonetheless, the word 'race' is here to stay. The trick is to keep the word in perspective.

Answer 6

No, I don't see why. There are many different races & many different cultures within each race. In whites, there are German, English, Scottish, Irish, Scandanavian, Italian, etc........In hispanics, there are Cuban, Mexican, Puertor Rican, all different S Am & Central Am, etc. Africa is a continent with many different cultures, Asians, Arabs, I don't want to leave anyone out. You get the point.

Answer 7

not technically, but it is a very strange question since you (or whomever is asking this) is probably a wide variety of races mixed together. In todays society there arn't any "pure" races left. People claim they are at times, but it just isn't true. I am mostly German but I have other cultures thrown in. My husband is about as "pure" as you can get he is Korean. But really, why does it matter what the race is? German, Korean, Black we are people right?

Answer 8

No, it's not racist. It's a fact.

Answer 9

we are all human who decides our race most people prefer to stay with their clain family those of a similer back ground that is not raceist unless the degrad others

Answer 10

no cuz there are many races