According to anthropologists,there are only 3 races,Caucasian,Black,and Asian, how would you classify?

Question

someone who's bi-racial or mixed ?

I find this theory confusing,that's why I'm asking the question.

Answer 1

Anthropologists use DNA and other scientific characteristics to define RACE. Scientists usually do not publish racist opinions because they know that would be trashed by the scientific community. They want their work to be taken seriously so they normally take care to publish accurate results of their work. There are certain blood types not found in Asians who are purely Asian. There has been some mixing of races in the past so scientists have to extend their work as far back as history will allow. DNA samples of Alaskan native peoples match up almost perfectly with Asians. But again there have been Europeans in Alaska for more than one hundred years so there is the possibility of racial mixing.
When the last word on race is spoken it should be that we all come from a common ancestor. Later the descendants got spread out on the earth and in time and from being seperated from other cultures accounted for the difference in RACE.

Answer 2

These are the only three races that exited and I knew sense I was born!!!
I was shocked when I signet in an American site that said there are a couple of 20 races in the world!!
It says choose: are you white, black, Asian!!, Middle eastern!!....etc I wonder if they read that there are only three races?!
Any ways my dad is a Caucasian (white) and my mom is Black ( she's actually half Black half Caucasian) and I'm a middle Eastern according to those who don't know the only three races that ever existed!!

Answer 3

the 3-race way of divying up humanity was popular in the mid-20th century, but has generalyl fallen into disuse. Even grouping Latinos, Asian-Indians and middle easterners as Caucasiian and Native Americans as Asian, it still failed to account for Australian Aboriginies and others.

A better analysis circa 1980 divides us up into about 30-33 categories... but we're all still human, when all's said and done.

Answer 4

I'm sorry, but I think that's BS... Only 3 races? Please!.....
I am from Costa Rica, my skin is "white" (more of a tan), but I am not considered Caucasian... I'm a Latin, or Hispanic (both terms are very ambiguos, but that's beside the point)
I believe that races are for dogs and horses, when it comes to people, there's only one: THE HUMAN RACE.

Answer 5

"Race" is only a social construct created by white people looking to use racist science to their advantage. Humans in my opinion are on a spectrum, ranging from the whitest of white people to dark skinned people and everything in between. Everybody's made the same way.

Answer 6

this three races thing was totally made up and by now it should be clear that it totally doesn't work. I have heard that there is no biological definition of these three races, there is only one human race with many many many different varieties. it's just our obsessions that make us talk about races.

Answer 7

I think this classification system has always been incorrect. It was arbitrarily determined and never scientifically verified. I think it should go the way of phrenology, where so called experts equated intelligence of lack thereof with the shape and size of a person's head.

Answer 8

in the end there is only the human race ,that is how i classify,

Answer 9

I would say that we are all the human race and be done with it

Answer 10

I don't really know.

I don't think that is right. What about Native Americans...what category do they fit into?