Would You Consider Jamaican a Race Like, Say Hispanic?

Question

I say this because the people of Jamaica are a mixed race.

I hate ignorance, not all jamaicans are African. I am Jamaican, but my grandmother is from Brazilian but she is chinese, my reat grandfather is white and is from Scotland.

Sorry everyone, yahoo cut off part of my question, it was meant to say

Would you consider Jamaicans a form of a race, say like, for example, Hispanic (I am not calling Jamaicans hispanic)

Answer 1

Like the others have said, Jamaican is a nationality, like French, Mexican, Chinese, etc. The way we use race, according to Wikipedia below, is an inaccurate description based physical descriptions and social groupings.

The term race distinguishes one population of an animal species (including human) from another of the same subspecies. Many regard race as a social construct. The most widely used human racial categories are based on visible traits (especially skin color and facial features), genes, and self-identification. Conceptions of race, as well as specific racial groupings, vary by culture and over time and are often controversial, for scientific reasons as well as their impact on social identity and identity politics.

Since the 1940s, evolutionary scientists have rejected the view of race according to which any number of finite lists of essential characteristics could be used to determine a like number of races. For example, the convention of categorizing the human population based on human skin colors was used, but hair colors, eye colors, nose sizes, lip sizes, and heights were not. Many evolutionary and social scientists think common race definitions, or any race definitions pertaining to humans, lack taxonomic rigour and validity. They argue that race definitions are imprecise, arbitrary, derived from custom, have many exceptions, have many gradations, and that the amounts of races observed vary according to the culture examined. They further maintain that "race" as such is best understood as a social construct, and conceptualize and analyze human genotypic and phenotypic variation in terms of populations and clines instead. Some scientists, however, have argued that this position is motivated more by political than scientific reasons. Some others also argue that categories of self-identified race/ethnicity or biogeographic ancestry are both valid and useful, that these categories correspond with clusters inferred from multilocus genetic data, and that this correspondence implies that genetic factors might contribute to unexplained phenotypic variation between groups.

Answer 2

No, Jamaican is a nationality, not a race. Hispanic refers
to more than just Spain in just context. Jamaican is no
more a race than Spaniard is.

Answer 3

Jamaicain is not a race they are a nationality. Just like Americans, they can be of different races. There are white Americans, black Americans, latino Americans, Asian Americans, etc. In the same way there are white Jamaicains, black Jamaicains, latino Jamaicans, etc. Get it?

Answer 4

Hispanics are mixed race, too. Jamaican is a nationality. Not sure! Good question...

Answer 5

so.. Jamaicans are the only mixed race? i don't understand?

don't point the finger at us about ignorance... please show me a race that isn't mixed... remember you've got over 30,000 years of humanity to sort through and then some.

i don't understand what you are asking or talking about really. what's wrong with Hispanics? why are we singling out the Jamaicans?

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so you're all so knowledgeable.....

i say go back and do some more research if you've done any at all and please come back again and ask this question or whatever it really is in a educated, formal matter with intelligence.

Answer 6

I wouldn't, and really, I wouldn't consider hispanics a seperate race from whites, simply because their ancestors were from Spain, a European country. This would mean Christopher Columbus is a different race than white people as well. So I would consider Jamaicans simply black, and hispanics white. I dunno, just a humble opinion.

Answer 7

Martin Delany wrote this 95 page treatise on the origin of races at a time when even educated circles used scientific sophistry to explain the superiority of the Euro American or white race of people. It was also a time charged by the appearance of Charles Darwin's scientific work. "The Origin of Species" in 1859 explained the evolution of the human race from lower mammals and life forms driven by the force of natural selection by which the most fit of any species survived while the lesser species perished. Darwin also published closer to the time of Delany's work "The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex" in 1871.

Delany wrote "The Origin of Race and Color" to counter the implication that could be drawn from Darwin's work that races of human beings represent different levels of evolution in man. His last published work of any significance, the aging Delany reaffirmed his old principles and informed opinion that the very first human civilizations in Egypt and Ethiopia were created by persons of the black race. He also argues, through scientific argument that contrary to the assertion that the white race of humans evolved from black or other races, seeks to show that human races stem from three basic skin colors with the Indian (red) or Adamic race the first. He uses historical and biblical sources to support this view. He offers Noah and his sons and daughters in law as representing as yet unmixed racial group after the great flood. Delany debates issues of racial purity that was so common then, yet repugnant to modern minds, when he describes the "Malay" race as "abnormal," leaving open the possibility of considering the entire Malay people as inferior, basing this on color theory without regard for the infinity of qualities that constitute any human being.

In response to a legislative program and administrative needs the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued in 1977 the "Race and Ethnic Standards for Federal Statistics and Administrative Reporting" for which these standards are now contained in a Statistical Policy Directive. The racial classifications set forth in the Directive are American Indian or Alaskan Native; Asian or Pacific Islander; Black; and White. The ethnic classifications specified are " Hispanic origin" and "Not of Hispanic origin." The standards have been used throughout the Federal Government for almost two decades--in two decennial censuses in various surveys of the population in data collections to meet statutory requirements associated with monitoring and enforcing civil rights, and in other administrative reporting for Federal programs. Jamaicans are not a "race."

Go to this link: http://www.apologeticspress.org/articles/2007

Answer 8

jamaican is not a race because as you said they are very mixed. so they would be considred or biracial or mixed

Answer 9

well, ya i do consider them a race. like, a very small percentage of a race.

Answer 10

No, they are of African decent, they are not Hispanic.