Can I get some people to answer some questions for an anthropology project?

Question

I am working on an anthropology project about human races, and I really need some help. Please answer the questions as best to your knowledge.

How many races are there?

What are they?

What is your race?

What is your s*x?

What is your age?

Thank you so much!

Answer 1

15, ?, Caucasian, Female, 18.

Answer 2

There is one race--human.  There are physical differences associated with ethnicity, but they are almost entirely external.  My race is human, and I am ethnically Caucasian.  I am female and 38 years old.  You're welcome :)

Answer 3

I imagine there's millions, if there are any races anymore

I only know the obvious ones - the ones that appear on application forms; white, mixed, chinese, black, european. I should be able to think of more...

I consider myself white, female and 27

Answer 4

Race definitions: A race is an inbred group in biology. Any inbreeding group that does so will develop unique genetic traits due to drifting and bottleneck effect. Any non-inbreeding group, therefore, will stop being a genetically isolated population, and hence will cease to be a race by definition. A secluded neonazi group of WASP's that has chosen to inbreed for whatever reason, for instance, would form a human race, while any immigrant group that is not governed by an inbred mating behaviour would cease to be a human race.

In biology: "In biology, a race is any inbreeding group, including taxonomic subgroups such as subspecies, taxonomically subordinate to a species and superordinate to a subrace and marked by a pre-determined profile of latent factors of hereditary traits."

In anthropology: "The term race or racial group usually refers to the concept of dividing humans into populations or groups on the basis of various sets of characteristics.[1]

The most widely used human racial categories are based on visible traits (especially skin color, cranial or facial features and hair texture), and self-identification.[1][2]

Conceptions of race, as well as specific ways of grouping races, vary by culture and over time, and are often controversial for scientific as well as social and political reasons.

The controversy ultimately revolves around whether or not races are natural types or socially constructed, and the degree to which observed differences in ability and achievement, categorized on the basis of race, are a product of inherited (i.e. genetic) traits or environmental, social and cultural factors.

Some argue that although "race" is a valid taxonomic concept in other species, it cannot be applied to humans.[3]

Many scientists have argued that race definitions are imprecise, arbitrary, derived from custom, have many exceptions, have many gradations, and that the numbers of races delineated vary according to the culture making the racial distinctions;

thus they reject the notion that any definition of race pertaining to humans can have taxonomic rigour and validity.[4]

Today most scientists study human genotypic and phenotypic variation using concepts such as "population" and "clinal gradation".

Many contend that while racial categorizations may be marked by phenotypic or genotypic traits, the idea of race itself, and actual divisions of persons into races, are social constructs.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11]"

Answer 5

This is an anthropology project?

Biologically races don't exist.

Answer 6

Race is a rather arbitrary distinction without clear boundaries.  There are three main races Caucasian, N e g r o, Mongoloid or Asian.  You also get other definitions that include Caucasian, Austronesian, Old World Asian, New World Asian, N e g r o, Sans or Bushmen, Pygmies and these are sometimes divided further.

Caucasian

Male

48

I guess N e g r o offends some which is ODD and why i split the word.

Answer 7

I have heard it classified in this way:

- There are three races: Mongolid, Caucozoid, and *******.

- I believe I am considered Caucoziod, I am Female and a teenager.

From what I was told, the races have nothing to do with skin color, but instead with facial structure and geography... Hope this helps.