[ASA Vet]

French is a country not a race.

France is the country, French are the people living there, and their language.

Gaelic, Norman, Frankish, Basque, Flemish, and French are not a race. They are members of the Caucasian race.

[demecleze]

Please forgive me it was from the hip. I do in fact know that France (Derived from the name of the Germanic tribe that came in with Clovis)is a country and French is Nationality and moniker for the Latin derived language.

Race is a little more tricky, I am doing my pH.D in Biophysics so I have encountered lots of this stuff over the years. I guess I should have described those groups as tribes, breeds or subspecies? In Biology the term tribe is used sometimes with respect to plants but it is not an accepted grouping (right now lowest is subspecies).

I have never agreed with the Caucasian, Mongoloid and Negroid race paradigm (oversimplified, need subgroups). But you are essentially correct as that is the only one I am aware of.

I refer to any group that if distilled would likely yield a Gaussian distribution of traits as a race or a subset of some other race. I guess what we need is uniform system to label these groups.

I thank you for the correction and will try not to be so lazy in the future.