Anthropology Race Questions?

Question

Hello I know this is kind of random but I’m doing a field work assignment for my Anthropology class and I was wondering if you can help me by answering a couple of questions. Thank you so much!

Personal data (only used for statistical purposes)

Sex:
Age (optional):
Race you identify with:

1) How do you define “race”?

2) How many human races do you believe there are?

3) What are several examples?

Thank You!

Answer 1

All humans beings are of one species - HOMO SAPIEN.

Homo sapiens are classified into three main races (in Latin): 1. *******, 2. Mongoloid, 3. Caucasoid.

The three main races are subdivided into ethnic groups.

And the gene pools get further complicated from there.

So no single race of man is inferior or superior to another race since all races are of a single species, Homo Sapien.

Answer 2

Sex: Female
Age: 15
Race: Human

1) I use race very loosely, as a physically descriptive term. For example, describing two kids in my theater group, Isaiah and Cole. "Isaiah's the tall black kid over there, in the blue shirt." "Cole's the scrawny white guy with the clipboard." I don't mention race specifically unless the person is in the minority; if there is only one black person in the room, if I need to identify someone, I'll only mention the black person's race. I also think that race is primarily a cultural thing and will use it that way; speaking broadly, people who look like this tend to have this kind of cultural upbringing and therefore will probably have these traits or mannerisms. I always give the individual a blank slate but it helps when trying to figure stuff out.

2) Genetically, race is meaningless and I'd say none. We have some aesthetic variations that have been called 'race', I believe the difference stop there and it is very poor, crude terminology anyway.

3) Speaking more shallowly -i.e, for my descriptions- I use white (and a few variations), black, Hispanic, Asian, Middle-Eastern. White is sort of whatever the other categories aren't. So a dark-skinned, black-haired Spanish guy is white, even though he looks more Middle Eastern and shares the same gene pool as the Hispanics, though I believe that they have some more Aztec traits in there. Oh yeah...any indigenous peoples with their own individual set of physical traits count as races too.

But really, there is only one: human.

I think you mean ethnicity but I used race in my answer so you could get your data.

Answer 3

Sex: Female
Age: 21
Race: Human (biological)/White (social)

1) Race is a social construction that has no basis in biology. The markers usually used to identify someone as belonging to a certain race are superficial (skin colour, eye colour, hair colour, hair type) or cultural (food eaten, mannerisms, etc). One cannot subdivide Homo sapiens into races because the variation between groups is miniscule compared to the huge amount of variation within any group. Traits vary independently of eachother, as well. In addition, traits such as skin colour and eye colour do not vary by region but rather vary gradually over space. It would be difficult to subdivide humans, anyway, because we are still evolving and we tend to interbreed, so there are no fixed groups. All of this said, race as a social construction is very real and has real world implications as a tool that can be used to lift some groups up and keep other groups down. It has long-lasting socioeconomic consequences, with the racial groups deemed best in any given society receiving more resources than those deemed less worthy.

2) There are as many or as few races as the perceiver decides exist. The race with which one identifies can vary over a lifetime, depending on one's social context and one's appearance. Personally, I believe the number of races to be infinite, or at the very least, equal to the number of people on the planet.

3) I cannot give any specific examples with the number of races being infinite. Just imagine any combination of geographic regions, large and small. We all came from the same small population in Africa, anyway. Its just that some of us have lost varying degrees of our pigment (when you start thinking of it in that way, white people start looking funny).

Answer 4

Sex: M
Age (optional): 50
Race you identify with: Human

1) How do you define “race”?: Social construct without any real basis in human gentics.

2) How many human races do you believe there are?: Zero

3) What are several examples?: See above.

Answer 5

Female
Asian

1) the status at which society gives us according to the (genetic) origin of parents according to geography

2)Approx 6

3)Caucasian, African (American), Asian, Hispanic, Mixed

reasoning? it's not simply whether or not i believe there is a distinct line distinguishing human beings. i'd much rather have the benevolent belief that the only race is human beings. but the fact is that people will always divide themselves naturally or through social influence according to affiliations, including race.

Answer 6

Male Caucasian. Different physical charateristics.Not just color but structure and hair . Caucasian, *******,Asian ,So.Pacific Islander.
Caucasian includes white Europen,Jewish,even Mexican and Indian(n. American). Asian because of eye style,skeletal shape,almost completely to a person dark brown to black hair. Same with black and Islander.
Although we are all the same or else we wouldn't be able to procreate any more than an elephant with a tiger.

Answer 7

Female, age 38
Human Race

I'm no anthropology expert, but I believe there's only one race. How race is commonly used, I believe is correctly referred to as ethnicity.

I hope that helps you in your assignment somewhat!

Answer 8

sex: male
age: 33
race: homo sapien sapiens
1.) race does not pertain to skin color, language, or cultural attribute. race encompasses an entire species, but is more than a species.
2.)1
3.)human

Answer 9

Skin color,facial features,hair texture,body built