Please define race?!?!?

Question

After stumbled onto this http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2007/06/11/i... I am not sure how to define race? Is that mean if you are an Israel and if you convert to muslim and speak palestinian/arab and observe their culture, you can be a palestinian OR vice

i realised that's an error to the link, may i just explain that this particular country allows people from other races to change to their race as long as other races could convert to muslim (their national religion), observe their culture and speak their language! How ridiculous!

Answer 1

One good thing about Yahoo Answers is that it gives us a chance to educate our fellows.

You are not sure how to define race.

Well, the "Palestinians" are certainly not a race. The Arabs who now call themselves "Palestinians" do so in order to persuade a misinformed world that they are a distinct nationality and that "Palestine" is their ancestral homeland. But they are no distinct nationality at all.

They are the same - in language, custom, and tribal and family ties - as the Arabs of Syria, Jordan, and beyond. There is no more difference between the "Palestinians" and the other Arabs of those countries than there is between, say, the citizens of Minnesota and those of Wisconsin.

And the "Palestinians" are certainly not a religion either--some are Muslims, some are Christians.

What unites them today is their desire to eliminate the state of Israel. If that's what you yearn for, then you have found the people you love.

Otherwise, keep your identity and strive for peace and freedom.


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Answer 2

Here is how many people (including me) define Race
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race

There are a lot of people in the world who have some racist beliefs about people of religions and backgrounds other than their own. While it is true that due to some regions of the world having a lot more inter-marriage than immigration, and not a lot of different religions cultures etc. this means that there's a lot of people living some place that have homegeneity of both race and something else, that something else also has a definition.

So because some religions say if you are _____ member of that religion, when you marry, it has to be someone else of that same _____ religion, and similar stuff with ancestry expectations, other people, particularly bigots, can get confused.

I think people from South and Central America, called Hispanics, are a race like Blacks are a race.

Mexicans is a nationality. I think most whose ancestry is in that area of the world are either Hispanics or Blacks or descendents of the Natives who lived there before Europeans arrrived with the slave trade.

A Jewish person is not any particular race ... can be Caucasian (white), Black, Chinese, Japanese, American Indian, although I guess there's more Jews of European descent than in the rest of the world.

A Muslim person also is not any particular race ... can be White, Black, Arab, Asian.

So if you change your religion from say Druid to Buddhist, that has absolutely nothing to do with your race.

A Palestinian is not a race, but a regional ... it is like American or Canadian ... suppose you are a Pigmy from Australia and you emigrate to America & learn all the customs and become an American ... you also still are a Pigmy ... your race does not change because of where you live, or what your citizenship is.

Now some people say that the Palestinians are not a real nation, and other people say similar things about the Israelis. Both cases are people who came to live in a region of the world ... they are a people with an identity.

Look at the former Warsaw Pact nations of the former Soviet Union ... different peoples ethnicity ... some of them want their own independent nation, some have unity with neighbors ... new countries are founded from time to time because of the needs of the people of the region. This does not make those peoples illegitimate.

Answer 3

One thing is certain, Islam is not a race it is a religion; therefore I object to anyone insulting my opinion that Muslims be prevented from establishing a multi million prescience in the UK by saying this is racist..

I am against Islam on political and patriotic grounds because I think if enough Muslims come here they will make the UK into a version of Islam which had clearly failed its followers.


I welcome secular ex Muslims like Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie to this great country of ours.I welcome him because I am not racist just anti Islam. Repeat, Islam is not a race it is a religion.

Sir Salman himself has warned about "Islamic imperialism",
we in the UK had better wake up and take notice of this great man while we can.

Answer 4

Race refers to the origin of your people such as
African, Asian, Caucasion (White originating from area known as Caucases in Europe) etc.

Race refers to the various ways in which humans evolved differently to suit their new environments as they left Africa ( or didn't) so many thousands of years ago.


Ethnicity is about the country(s). of origin of your family line.

Religion usually gets associated with it but obviously that is unrelated since it is a matter of choice.

Answer 5

The result of two or more peopl;e journeying from point A to point B within a finte time limit or in an attempt to arrive at point B before everyone else.

Answer 6

The only races of people ever created is Man ma te Woman as far as the eye can see...They are divided into families, lands, tongues and nations...and as it is this day, Flagpoles.

Answer 7

If your white, christian and British, then you don't have to be in a race, on the other hand if you any other colour, nationality or faith, then you are in a race to get here before we close the gates.

Answer 8

8 people line up behind a white line. An official shouts Ready, Steady Go. Everybody runs like mad, the first one to finish is the winner.

Answer 9

I'm really not sure. I think it's based on white, black, etc...

I know that Mexican or Hispanic isn't a race. That's why it is so stupid when the pro-illegals call anti-illegals "racist." We are not talking about race. We are talking about the law.

Answer 10

Barry K Rocks!