Is it true that scientific catagorizing has 3 races, asian,black and caucasian?

Question

how was it determined there was 3 races? where do they put Brazilians,Mexicans, Spanish ? how are they classified?

Answer 1

Yes. Some include Polynesian as a fourth, but that is losing adherents. Brazilian, Mexican, and Spanish are nationalities and have nothing to do with race.

Answer 2

It sounds to me like you are asking about a report that was on TV that was talking about DNA being broken down into 3 catagories, ...... oh I wish i had paid more attention to it now, but in general they were saying that everyone has caracteristics that go back to one of 3 lines.

I think it was a documentary on history channel, and finding what area people are from useing DNA alone.

the guy that said something about Caucasions was correct that they are poeple from that area, and in general today are considered white, but not all of them were, just as not all africans are black.  They talked about the now latin people, but I changed the channel around then and lost interest.

Answer 3

See here: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?...

That's an interesting thread.

Answer 4

no it is not true-

according to science, the concept of race is purely an arbitrary construct, with no basis in any physical reality- ie- various traits are cannot be grouped together to form neat, distinct groups.

Answer 5

I don't really know. We might all be different races, but were still the same species.

Answer 6

Lets make progress and do away with this issue altogether.  Race means absolutely nothing.

Answer 7

To put it simply, there is no biological/scientific basis for race.  It is merely a social reality.  It depends on what culture or time period you find yourself in.  Here's an interesting situation to apply this question.  In the early twentieth century censuses (censi? I never knew how the plural for the word.  Anyway, moving on...) many Mexican immigrants did not know which bubble to fill: white/Caucasian or Other?  Most in the 30s filled out white, because Chicanos of the day felt more connection with the "white" world, trying to make it in "white-dominated" society, rather than the discrimination of "black" people.  But this started to change in the 60s when they garnered a separate identity of their own as "Latino/a."  I apologize for being too cryptic, but in essence, it shows the relativity and nebulousness of race associations.  With the amorphousness, relativity, and lack of biological basis of race in mind, I guess you could say those Spanish-speaking peoples would be grouped in a generic "Latino" category, even though it makes no real sense since they're derived from different peoples.

Answer 8

I'm not a proponent of studies that incorporate race, as I do not consider it a scientific measure. So there's a no.

As far as I know, those who do use it have more than three different races to put people into. So there's another no.

Answer 9

these are not scientific races. Caucasian is used erroneously to describe all white people, when it actually refers to those from around the Caucus mountains. There is no Mexican race, they are either descendants of whites, descendents of natives, mixed between those two, or other races.

I dont know who told u there were three races but thats real ignorant. there are many races in Africa, Asia, Europe, North, and South America.

Answer 10

well brazilians are completelly different than mexicans and spanish well they are in europe, they are sub categories

they go under white, but you should not worry about that in the end we are all made of the same stuff, we all came from one mother