Re: Races of Man

[Jean Stokes <sinead@milamba.com>]

Privateers, in a world where we are still trying to work through the
nightmare of the Holocaust, Bosnia, Ruanda, Tibet and various other bits
of "racial cleansing" why do you need to bring this kind of
message into a network of people who are connected by thin lines of blood
and a strong common interest?  We have a connection that could work for
peace not disharmony!!


At 02:26 PM 23/05/00 +0100, you wrote: 
> I'm quite
> surprised to find out that the Caucasian people of India and Pakistan
> have become Black!
>  
> There are only 5 races of
> man.
>  
> Johann Frederich Blumenbach, a German
> anthropologist studied skulls and broke all of mankind down into the five
> races.
>  
> Caucasian - which covers Europe,
> Middle East, North Africa and their descendants elsewhere
> East Asians - the largest race of man,
> including Native American
> Mongoloids - Chinese, Japanese, Koreans - the term means "like
> Mongols"
> Micronesians - laying between the Asiatics or Mongoloid people and
> Melanesians
> Negro - those originating from south of the Sahara
>  
> Over the centuries there has been a
> lot of in-breeding.  Indigenous populations such as the Aborigines of
> Australia, although they are dark skinned, are not related to the
> Negroids.  They are usually qualified as a sub-race of the Caucasian
> family similar to the Vedda of Sri Lanka.  In strict scientific terms
> "race" refers to the genetic composition of a population.  Many
> individuals can be classified as belonging to more than one race due to
> intermarriage.  
>  
> Racial characteristics are
> biological.  Ethnicity brings divergent languages and cultures.  It is
> taught rather than inherited. Racial, linguistic and cultural origins are
> independent of one another.  Racial concepts are often misapplied.  There
> is no difference in race in inherit intelligence or mental capacity that
> cannot be explained by environment.
>  
> As Ever, 
>  
> Sinclair
>  
> P.S. Sometimes one race will act as
> if it is superior to another.  Only in the case of Scots is this true- we
> are clearly superior to everyone.  Those of us Scots or of Scots descent
> have known this for centuries.  The rest of the world has simply been
> failed to be informed of this.  While not actually a race of man, we are
> a unique breed of man.  It is probably the result of good whisky
> :p
>  
>  
>  



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