If there is such a thing as being mixed race, then what constitutes?

Question

being of a pure race?

Answer 1

i don't think there are any "pure races" coz i guess that at one time or another in the past, ppl from different parts of the world have come together...but if you consider "pure" race it means that it's a person who has no ancestors who were of a different origin...
p.s..i don't like the word "race"...i prefer to use "origin"

Answer 2

I see ur point. There is every chance that some people in England, for example, can trace their ancestory right back to the caveman without ever having left the country. But they would surely be in the minority. But if we could find two such people and mate them, their child would be of "pure" race.
A lot would depend on the difference between "race" and "nationality". Would a Spanish person and an Argentinian person not be considered the same race?
The vast majority of people are a mix of many races. Personally I prefer that. Of course I am a mix myself so I guess I would. Americans would be the most likely to be a rich and varied mix seeing as how so many people from the rest of the world settled there over the course of history. But it could happen that one of those purebred English Anglo-Saxans that I mentioned in the first paragraph went to America and only had babies with *other* purebred English ex-pats. Seems unlikely though and less and less likely as time goes on.

Answer 3

I very much doubt that there are any true`pure blood` people in the world. We are all a cocktail of one sort or another! What I think most people mean when they say `mixed race`, is colour rather than `breed`. If a black person and a white person have a child to-gether, that child is generally a coffee colour ( although not always). The child will have some features of one parent and some of the other and the child's` skin colour is generally lighter than its` black parent and darker than its` white parent. There are of course exceptions to this as nature has its` own way of deciding what we all look like.!
The same would apply if a Japanese or Chinese person were to marry either a black person or a white person, the child would have features from both parents. I think this is what most people mean when they say `mixed race`.

Answer 4

The idea of 'race' itself is a specious category. Most people just take it for granted that such things as different human races exist without thinking about what this means or is actually based on. What different races are there? What distinguishing factors are used and why? Are these always the same for all people, in all places and throughout history? Is skin colour enough to make claims about different races? What about genetic and cultural differences within these groups? How are ethnicity and culture thrown into the mix to make it seem as though races are 'natural'? In short, we are of all one race - the human race. The genetic differences between human populations all over the world are so statistically insignificant that dividing us up into groups is ultimately a social, cultural and historical process (usually based on excluding people) rather than a biological one. That doesn't mean we can't come from all variety of backgrounds though (national, ethnic, etc. - and don't even get me started on ideas about those).
Of course, that being said, many people still think, act and make policy based on the ideas of clear-cut biological races, which means it is very real to many people and directly affects their lives, even if the arguments on which it is based are highly questionable. So, it is possible to come up with all sorts of definitions for 'pure' and 'mixed' races, but it might be better to ask: Who is making these definitions? How and why? Who benefits from these classifications and who suffers?

Answer 5

When you consider how long people have been around,you'll know there is no way there can be a 'pure race'! I watched a program once where they brought together the descendants of Thomas Jefferson-the audience was shocked to see a mix of races! This was an early American president,and everybody assumed all descendants would be white-but in 200 years it had, of course,diversified.

Answer 6

I don't know what being of pure race means these days; I do know Hitler tried to assure the "purity" of the German race by eliminating everyone else.
My youngest child is of mixed race; his father was Hong Kong Chinese of the Han people; his clan had fled the Japanese invasion from mainland China last century; he too was not sure of his ancestry; he used to tell me he thought there was missionary blood ion his family, from Belgian missionaries!
I am supposed to be Irish; yet my maiden name is a Huegonot name; my ancestors were possibly French!!
So what does mixed race mean?
I don't think there are many people in the world today who are not of mixed race. You would have to look closely at some of the very traditionallly closed communities of the world, like North Korea for example; or Northern Ireland, where tradionally one never married outside one's own local community.
Did you know that one of the highest rates of Down's Syndrome in the world is in Northern Ireland?
No new blood for hundreds of years; cousins marrying cousins;
What about that then??

Answer 7

It is when say for example, a person of the white race and of the black race conceive a child, that of which the child would be perceived as a mixed raced child, and that go's for any one of any two different racial background's that have a child together.

Answer 8

Before we all went mamby pamby it was survival of the fittest, so if I came along and beat you at war or whatever, we would procreate so there was a lot of crossing of tribes etc. As we all originally came out of Africa, interbreeding and strenght of sun took it's toll. So the answer is No and Yes depending on your viewpoint, if you believe that a black person is of a different race from a white or yellow or brown then you would not need to ask the question.

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Answer 10

Of the significant races, the Jews are probably the closest to a pure race.
They have combined race, religion and culture and made this club almost impossible to join for the last 3000 years. The Jewish blood line in passed through the woman so that the blood can only be corrupted by rape or occasional infidelity.
The success of this strict programme of controlled breeding is self evident.