In traditional anthropological studies, there are actually 5 races.
These are:
1) Mongoloid (Asian and American Indian)
2) Caucasoid (European)
3) Australoid (Australian and oceanic)
4) Negroid (east African black)
5) Capoid (south African black)
The remaining peoples are mixtures or “mongrels” of the different races above. This theory was originally proposed by Ashley Montague and has been disputed for years, but has still withstood the test of time to a large extent. The biggest problem with this theory is that all races share 99.99+% of the same genetic materials which means that further division of race is largely subjective, and that the original 5 races were also probably just subjective descriptions as well. The above theory has been used by people in the past to support racism as well as to refute it.
All in all the preponderance of evidence suggests that race is for now a subjective term. Furthermore, until DNA technology becomes even better, then there can be no better answer than Montague’s, but that in time we will probably find more detailed versions.
For example, a color terminology for race includes the following, in a classification of human races: Black (Sub-Saharan Africa), Red (Native Americans), Yellow (East Asians), White (Europeans) and Brown (South Asians).
source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_race#Complete_scientific_classification
Just being scientific and accurate.
Well then I guess a Caucasian from Europe couldn’t POSSIBLY be racist against a Caucasian from Iran!!!
Or could they???
Could a Caucasian Arab from Yemen be racist against a Caucasian Persian from Iran? You betcha they could!
Those classifications you posted are not based upon any actual data. My next post will include a chart based upon actual data.
A population group need not “mongrelize” to become a distinct group on the chart above - just keep to themselves enough as far as reproduction for long enough.
Notice that “Iranian” is a distinct population group based upon DNA data - as per the chart above.