Are there not only four recognized human races now? What are they?

Question

*******, mongoloid, caucazoid? Is that right? What is the last one?

Answer 1

It depends on who you ask but there can be up to 8 or 9 human races. Personally I believe there are only 3 human races which are negoroid, mongoloid, and caucazoid.  These races are not based solely on color but other physical differences such as the eyes, the bridge of the nose, the same and size of the nose, and hair texture.

Answer 2

In the classic sense, ******* (African), Caucasoid (European/Central Asian) and mongoloid (East Asian), however this is a very inaccurate system that no one uses anymore.  It neglects Americans (Natives) and the Aborigines.

The current US census uses white, black, Asian, native American, Pacific Islander, other, and interracial.

Answer 3

As far as race has any particular meaning, there'd be more than four represented in Africa.  Most the black population speak a group of languages called the Bantu group, and appear to be descendants of a farming people that spread out from West Africa.  Although also now speaking Bantu-derived languages, the various Pygmy peoples aren't descended from that population.  Rather, they're the last representative of people that arrived in their present areas earlier, and their ancestors adopted Bantu language.  Similarly, peoples sometimes known as 'Bushmen' (San, Sho, Basarwa, Khwe) also arose from earlier, non-Bantu-speaking ancestors.  Their languages have nothing of significance in common with the Bantu group.

Those three groups of people all happen to black Africans.  However, there's more genetic diversity among them than among the rest of the world's human population.  If anybody's inclined to talk about races, it makes no sense at all to lump those three groups together simply on the grounds of colour and geography.

Africa is also home to semitic groups in the north of the continent, some of European descent and populations that come in from across the Indian Ocean including Polynesians (in Madagascar) and Asian peoples.

There are various other peoples around the world who wouldn't fit neatly into some supposed four races.  Australia's Aborigines and their relatives in Southeastern Asia are an obvious example.  And the diversity of people in New Guinea would also present many unclear tangles.

<<KTDykes - how was that, in any way, an answer to the question I actually asked???>>

You asked if there are now considered to be only four recognized human races.  I pointed out that, taking diversity into account, there would have to be more races than that just in Africa alone. All black Africans don't, for example, constitute a single race in any meaningful way.  I also pointed out there are groups of people elsewhere who wouldn't sensibly fit into a 'four human race' model.

Perhaps you didn't fully understand the question as written.

Answer 4

*****, Caucasian, Oriental, Indian