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[Leahndra]

1 hour ago, Silent Mistwalker said:

Immigrants don't have children who are considered natural born citizens of the country they are born in? Are you saying that because their parents weren't born in that country, the children are not European? 

Because if that is the case then none of the humans on this planet are European because their ancestors didn't originate in Europe. They originated in Africa like everyone else's ancestors.

Lots of Spaniards are darks skinned, considered brown, not white. Like Ricardo here: 

 

Same for Italians and their Mediterranean dark skinned roots.

 

 

children of foreigners born in Germany have acquired German citizenship if one parent has lived legally in Germany for at least eight years and has an unlimited right of residence.

And yes, i know that some european cultures are more dark skinned. I am living with them  in Europe.

[Doris Johnsky]

2 hours ago, Leahndra said:

So?

The ones who are black immigrated to Europe. Why is that of importance anyway? The indigene inhabitants of Europe are white (spanish, italians, greeks, dutch, germans, the norse countries, poland, hungary ...)

Technically, if you believe in evolution, all people in Europe came from Africa some millions of years back. 

[Lucia Nightfire]

Why is 95% of this thread about Origin of the Species?

Edited January 18, 2022 by Lucia Nightfire

[Leahndra]

7 minutes ago, Lucia Nightfire said:

Why is 95% of this thread about Origin of the Species?

I have no idea!

[Doris Johnsky]

Far a long time scientist considered there to be only 3 races.  White , Black, Asian. Or more scientifically spoken, Caucasian, Negroid, or Mongoloid.  Recently, they decided that Australian Aboriginals were a 4th race. But since they say now that the aboriginals came from Southeast Asia,  they would be racially Asian.    With constant mixing of races that was bound to happen since Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons ( now called "Early Modern Humans" ) roamed the continents, lines are blurred, somewhat.

That doesn't change the fact that are only THREE races.

 

If this offends anyone, I apologize, but facts are facts.

[StarlanderGoods]

1 minute ago, Doris Johnsky said:

Far a long time scientist considered there to be only 3 races.  White , Black, Asian. Or more scientifically spoken, Caucasian, Negroid, or Mongoloid.  Recently, they decided that Australian Aboriginals were a 4th race. But since they say now that the aboriginals came from Southeast Asia,  they would be racially Asian.    With constant mixing of races that was bound to happen since Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons ( now called "Early Modern Humans" ) roamed the continents, lines are blurred, somewhat.

That doesn't change the fact that are only THREE races.

 

If this offends anyone, I apologize, but facts are facts.

Scientists in the 17th century, but we have come a long way since then.

[Theresa Tennyson]

12 hours ago, Doris Johnsky said:

Far a long time scientist considered there to be only 3 races.  White , Black, Asian. Or more scientifically spoken, Caucasian, Negroid, or Mongoloid.  Recently, they decided that Australian Aboriginals were a 4th race. But since they say now that the aboriginals came from Southeast Asia,  they would be racially Asian.    With constant mixing of races that was bound to happen since Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons ( now called "Early Modern Humans" ) roamed the continents, lines are blurred, somewhat.

That doesn't change the fact that are only THREE races.

 

If this offends anyone, I apologize, but facts are facts.

It would probably offend any living anthropologist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_genetics

[Arielle Popstar]

2 hours ago, Theresa Tennyson said:

It would probably offend any living anthropologist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_genetics

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[Coffee Pancake]

19 hours ago, Doris Johnsky said:

Far a long time scientist considered there to be only 3 races.  White , Black, Asian. Or more scientifically spoken, Caucasian, Negroid, or Mongoloid.  Recently, they decided that Australian Aboriginals were a 4th race. But since they say now that the aboriginals came from Southeast Asia,  they would be racially Asian.    With constant mixing of races that was bound to happen since Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons ( now called "Early Modern Humans" ) roamed the continents, lines are blurred, somewhat.

That doesn't change the fact that are only THREE races.

 

If this offends anyone, I apologize, but facts are facts.

Science once thought that health was regulated by the humors (blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile).

This turned out to be not only wrong, but harmful.

Just like your racist understanding of anthropology.

[ChinRey]

21 hours ago, Doris Johnsky said:

That doesn't change the fact that are only THREE races.

If this offends anyone, I apologize, but facts are facts.

Facts are facts, yes, but what you are saying is not. The word race has no objective meaning when it comes to categorizing human populations. All current and historical classification of human races are based on opinions with no factual support.

Of course, in theory we could base the distinction between races on genetics but if we did, we'd end up with a dozen or more African races and only a single one for the entire rest of the world's population. I've never heard of any race theories like that.

[Krystina Ferraris]

Funny how humans are the only animal that uses race as a taxonomic unit.

All other animals are classified into species and subspecies 🤷‍♀️

[ChinRey]

4 minutes ago, Krystina Ferraris said:

Funny how humans are the only animal that uses race as a taxonomic unit.

All other animals are classified into species and subspecies 🤷‍♀️

That actually makes sense in a way since there is very little genetic diversity in the modern human population compared to many other species.

[Silent Mistwalker]

2 minutes ago, Krystina Ferraris said:

Funny how humans are the only animal that uses race as a taxonomic unit.

All other animals are classified into species and subspecies 🤷‍♀️

That's because then they would have to admit we are all Homo sapiens and not some other species like Homo neanderthalensis or Homo erectus.

[Krystina Ferraris]

4 minutes ago, ChinRey said:

That actually makes sense in a way since there is very little genetic diversity in the modern human population compared to many other species.

Exactly as the human race “classification” is purely based on phenotypes!

[Krystina Ferraris]

4 minutes ago, Silent Mistwalker said:

That's because then they would have to admit we are all Homo sapiens and not some other species like Homo neanderthalensis or Homo erectus.

Or to move a step up in the tree,  they would have to admit that we are all Hominidae 😃

[Silent Mistwalker]

1 hour ago, Krystina Ferraris said:

Or to move a step up in the tree,  they would have to admit that we are all Hominidae 😃