how many races are there?

Question

1. WHITE / CAUCASIAN - european descent (other than Spain and portugal)
2. BLACK - African Decent
3. NATIVE AMERICAN (commonly known as Indians) -
4. HISPANIC - Spain and Portuguese decent
5. MIDDLE EASTERN - Arab, Egyptian, Persian, Indian, ect.
6. ASIAN (or ORIENTAL) - (people from the Far east) Chinese, Japanese, Mongolian, Vietnamese, Korean, ect.

Answer 1

there is one race.

the human race...

Answer 2

I'm not sure why you keep posting the same question but here goes. There is one species (Homo sapiens) and three distinct races:
1) Caucasoid - Those whose ancestry is from Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, South Asia & much of Central Asia.
2) ******* - Those of sub-Saharan African ancestry.
3) Mongoloid - East Asians, such as the Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Filipinos, Vietnamese, etc., as well as Native Americans.
(There is still debate regarding the Australian Aborigines, however.)
"Hispanic" is an ethnic designation & not a racial one. Most people are probably thinking of mestizos as the "typical" Hispanic but they can be white, black, mulatto, Amerindian or any combination. Some countries such as Argentina, Urugauy & Chile are as much as 97% white and 86% of Cuban-Americans are white.
I find it perplexing that you would exclude Spain & Portugual from your definition of Caucasian because they are just as white as any other country in continental Europe. (BTW, the Portuguese are not generally considered Hispanic.)
I've also noticed, lately, that some people here on YA actually seem to think that Greeks & Italians, Sicilians in particular, are not white either! That is simply ludicrous. Skin color has nothing to do with racial classification and the term "white" is not meant to be taken so literally. It is merely a synonym for Caucasian.
By the way, the analogy to canids is a very good one. All domestic dogs are a subspecies of the Grey Wolf.

Answer 3

Well most would say ONE- HUMAN

But the scientific catagories are:

Capoid or Khoisanid Subspecies of southern Africa

Congoid Subspecies of sub-Saharan Africa

Caucasoid or Europid Subspecies (Geographic distribution centered in the Caucasus mountains)

Australoid Subspecies

Mongoloid Subspecies

they are all BS, there is ONE RACE and hundreds if not thousands of ethnicities.

Answer 4

there is no such thing, biologically, as "race" within the human race. there is only physical adaptation to environment (such as dark skin to protect from sun, light skin to allow more sun in in cold places, dry hair in dry climates, deeps set eyes in sandy, windy climates, etc.).

race as we know it is just a social construct, a concept created by people to catagorize and generalize. if you got technical, you could keep dividing on so many levels, such as language, religion, accent, traditions, etc.

and you really have to ask yourself, why are these people grouped together? It's merely be physical appearance.

when you get to hispanic people , for example the concept fo race is muddy, because historically, that "race" came out of the mixing of the spanish conquistadors and the native americans. or african americans, many of who have mixed heritage with whtie and native americans. and now, with so many people of mixed heritage, are we going to create a new "race"? many problems with the idea of race.

Answer 5

You're asking this AGAIN? What kind of answer are you seeking, that you needed to ask this question all over again???

And people please, I'm sick of the "there is only one race" statement. Different races DO exist. We're not all the same race. We're all the same SPECIES. It's just like different breeds of dogs. Dogs come in different breeds, but they are all the same species.

Answer 6

Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't Indians (not Native Americans)considered Asian, as well?

Answer 7

One race, the human race. Anything else is just something made up to categorize people. For example on a census, what should someone check whose mother is one "race" and whose father is another "race"???

Answer 8

well, you have marathons in every major city--usually an annual thing and then you have the 5k's, 10 ks...etc... and it doesn't stop with running--you have the turtle and the hare--three legged races at company picnics, nascar, cycling...

Answer 9

There are only three races, the others are ethnicities.

Answer 10

There is only one and that is the human race. otherwise known as homosapiens.

Answer 11

There is just one - unfortunatly most people don't look at it that way.