What is meant by a race? Is it determined on the basis of color of the skin?

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If it is just the color of the skin than even the members of the same family may have diffrent races. If it is based on certain features than many of the non whites have better features than most of the whites making them a superior race as compared to whites.

Why do people with inferior qualities and features often raise racial or castiests issues in their dealings with others?

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The diffrences may not be as large as propagated. One thing is clear that peple are cunningly expert in organising groups against all others either on this or that pretext. Racialism has probably been the major hurdle in the process of globalisation.

Answer 1

race 1 Pronunciation (rs)
n.
1. A local geographic or global human population distinguished as a more or less distinct group by genetically transmitted physical characteristics.
2. A group of people united or classified together on the basis of common history, nationality, or geographic distribution: the German race.
3. A genealogical line; a lineage.
4. Humans considered as a group.
5. Biology
a. An interbreeding, usually geographically isolated population of organisms differing from other populations of the same species in the frequency of hereditary traits. A race that has been given formal taxonomic recognition is known as a subspecies.
b. A breed or strain, as of domestic animals.
6. A distinguishing or characteristic quality, such as the flavor of a wine.

Answer 2

First at all, the human species have only varieties, but no races can be clarly defined.
About the racism the explanation come from history of the world, and the differences are marked by the nations who dominate the world from centuryes, and take slaves, from the other nations.
The diferences was made from subjectifs reasons, and the well structured societies and social evolved nations was create subjectives concepts like instruments to rules the other less developed social structures.
So somme racial judgements was defined latter in order to create differences in the advantage of the rullers.
The rulles of the discrimination can use no matter what like tools, in order to get the dominant position: Religion, color of the skin, age, sex, sexual orientation, everithing can be used in the discrimination game, but the real reason is to rulle the others, not to make biological clasifications.
Almost everybody can be tempted to play the game, but in differents ways, starting with there personal values and preferences.

Answer 3

The term race distinguishes one population of an animal species (including human) from another of the same subspecies. The most widely used human racial categories are based on visible traits (especially skin color, facial features and hair texture), 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 because of their impact on social identity and identity politics. Some scientists regard race as a social construct while others maintain it has genetic basis.

Answer 4

The term race distinguishes one population of an animal species (including human) from another of the same species. The most widely used human racial categories are based on visible traits (especially skin color, facial features and hair texture), 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 because of their impact on social identity and identity politics. Some scientists regard race as a social construct while others maintain it has genetic basis.

Since the 1940s, some 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 has been used, but hair colors, eye colors, nose sizes, lip sizes, and heights have not. Many 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 numbers of races observed vary according to the culture examined. They further maintain that "race" as such is best understood as a social construct, and they prefer to conceptualize and analyze human genotypic and phenotypic variation in terms of populations and clines instead.

Many scientists, however, have argued that this position is motivated more by political than scientific reasons. Others also argue that categories of self-identified race/ethnicity or biogeographic ancestry are both valid and useful, that these categories correspond to clusters inferred from multilocus genetic data, and that this correspondence implies that genetic factors contribute to unexplained phenotypic variation among groups.

Answer 5

Skin tone, facial features and hair texture to an extent are the ONLY things which determine racial classifications; Black, White, South Asian, Middle Eastern, East Asian, Native American etc FFS! Different skull shapes are classified under ''Craniofacial Anthropometry '' Caucasoid, Negroidd, Capoid, Mongoloid & Australoid Craniofacial Anthropometry does NOT equal racial classificaiton. Craniofacial Anthropometry =/= racial classificaiton Why you people keep relating the two is beyond me. Since when do you call a black person black because of their skull shape, intelligence or anything else? You call us black because of physical traits; skin tone, facial features and hair texture. So stop trying to make make up BS or relate a social construct to science or anything else. Stupid people these days.....

Answer 6

It is hard to determine race these days. Because I do not like the determinations set by society; I will not answer that question on anything. I would have to check other. Because I am English, German, Scottish, Irish, Cherokee, Creek and a little Polish. I am definitely a mutt. So whenever people ask me what I am, I tell them that I am a human being and they will just have to accept that explanation.

Answer 7

Race means the origin of the person's family.If the person's ancestors are some kings,zamindars,etc., he/she is said to be from a noble family and belongs to the higher race.Similarly, if the person's ancestors belongs to the lower classes like slaves,workers,etc., he/she belongs to the lower race.This type of racial discrimination can be avoided only if everyone accepts the concept of universal brotherhood.Generally, differences based on the colour of skin are not seen in our country.

Answer 8

Race has everything to do with the color of your skin, and your genealogical background. Racial bigots not only insult people of different color, they also insult people of the same skin color, but from another country.
As far as I'm concerned there are no superior or inferior races.

Answer 9

Race was made to define what region of the world a person ancesors came from. Unfortunatly race has become more than african american and caucasian. Race for many mean runs deeper. Which is sad and degrading. I'm biracial and when I am asked what race I am from....I simply respond...human race. Thats stops them dead in their tracks. Cant argue with logic and reason! Good Luck!

Answer 10

There are different qualities in each race that seperate them other than color of skin. For example the extra thick eyelids of Asians becasue of the Gobi desert, or larger skulls of black people as well as greater natural muscle mass and thicker bones which makes them usually faster, but also inhibits their ability to swim. And though test after test has proven Northern Europeans to be the most intellectual of all the races these tests are unacceptable to society because society has decided that intellect is an inappropriate thing to judge. Also white skin gives an advantage in vitamin D production, so white people have the best survival rate of cancer patients. They are more prone to getting skin cancer, but also more likely to survive it.