How many races are there?

[GunsForBucks]

Growing up many years ago in one part of the world I was basically taught that humans began in three places on Earth.
Getting jobs as a kid I would only see three options on applications. I just figured that is how it worked.

As a grew older and moved to the USA I started to see more and more added. Like Hispanic was a new option I never saw before I moved to Southern California.

I figure what people consider "race" seems to be very different depending on how/where/experience from being raised a certain way.

Over the years I have seen more and more added to the list of races along with "other".

Now it seems the list is shorter and has the more basic local options and "other".

So the question becomes ...

Just what do people in different places call a "race"?

I have even seen Puerto Rican as a race.
Do Chinese consider themselves a different race from Japanese? There are certainly different characteristics. Different from Korean?

Should we consider Irish a different race from Scottish? They also have distinct characteristics. Even classic Roman features are different from classic Greeks.

Where do we draw the line? Are we back to the original 3 or has race become like gender and anything goes?

I just don't know. What is considered "normal" today? Is this even taboo to ask about or am I insulting someone by asking?

ANSWER - Apparently races do not exist. There is only one Race <human> and many Nationalities. Any mention of physical difference is considered bad and racist.

[GunsForBucks]

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Well it wasn't really a hot topic. I was just wanting to know what others think.

Should I be afraid to ask what people were taught in school? Is that offensive?

Would be nice if you were to say the least.

Look I put the answer in the OP

Are you fine with that stance? I am OK with that if that is what people want.
Just tell me.

[Vendicator Senpai]

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[Gym Leader Rory wants to battle!]

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Would be nice if you were to say the least.

Look I put the answer in the OP

Are you fine with that stance? I am OK with that if that is what people want.
Just tell me.

I would say it depends on who you ask. Thats a very white boy answer. Might wanna talk with some minority groups IRL to figure out how they feel about it.

[Hobbit XIII]

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You could not ask about race and hot topic issues. That would ensure you not get banned.

Well it wasn't really a hot topic. I was just wanting to know what others think.

Should I be afraid to ask what people were taught in school? Is that offensive?

One of the things I was taught at school age (not during school hours) if your stupid enough to get captured do these things to make them drop their guard blah blah blah and later in that lesson if you capture an enemy and he does anything I've taught then you shoot him.

[GunsForBucks]

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Look I put the answer in the OP

Are you fine with that stance? I am OK with that if that is what people want.
Just tell me.

I would say it depends on who you ask. Thats a very white boy answer. Might wanna talk with some minority groups IRL to figure out how they feel about it.

Honestly it isn't the answer I would pick either... but it seems the safest way to think of things here.

[St✩rlight]

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There's no such thing as 'your own people'. sometimes even within a family.

This depends on genetics and their interplay with environment, which biases certain traits and susceptibilities. This includes organizational characteristics and transgenerational information uptake.

Not really. if you are brought up in a Christian family and decide to become Moslem, If your family treats you differently, discriminates against you because you are Muslim and not Christian. That is the definition of racism. It affects the macro and the micro. There is no discernible terminality that can be drawn up without the assistance of an AI to work like a machine and put us all into tiny boxes for the benefit of mankind.

[Acetyl]

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This depends on genetics and their interplay with environment, which biases certain traits and susceptibilities. This includes organizational characteristics and transgenerational information uptake.

Not really. if you are brought up in a Christian family and decide to become Moslem, If your family treats you differently, discriminates against you because you are Muslim and not Christian. That is the definition of racism. It affects the macro and the micro. There is no discernible terminality that can be drawn up without the assistance of an AI to work like a machine and put us all into tiny boxes for the benefit of mankind.

No. The last sentence is a big maybe, but probably no.

[L1qu1dator]

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F1 is boring af

[Grendalcat]

US government says eight. SO NOW YOU KNOW.

White
59.3%

Hispanic and Latino
18.9%

Black
12.6%

Asian
5.9%

Two or more races
2.3%

American Indian or Alaska Native
0.7%

Some other race
0.5%

Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander
0.2%

[Moogal™]

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F1 is boring af

Mario Kart is funner

[levet.byck]

idk, there’s the ironman race, and the.. (oh, joke already taken)
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[Hobbit XIII]

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idk, there’s the iron man race, and the.. (oh, joke already taken)

There is the Mr Mouse challenge.

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Well there is the human race, horse races, rat race, dog races, nascar races, boat races etc.

[Eidolon]

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No offense meant. Just want to say that up front!!

I actually never noticed this until I was around a lot of Asian types of people... but the bone structure, especially around the eyes, is quite different from your "typical" Chinese compared to Japanese or even Korean. Just wondering if those differences were enough for them to be considered different from each other. Of course "standard deviation" means people are anything but "typical" on an individual basis. But overall I can look at a group of Asians and tell visually who is more likely from what country in a lot of cases just looking at faces.

I think an Asian person would even be able to tell better.

Like for me I could spot Irish people fairly easily. Scottish tend to be stockier/wider.
Romans tend to have mousey faces, Greeks broader.

Of course all of this is purely broad generalizations. But to me Hispanics that I have even seen listed on job applications seem little more than tanned whites.

At what point does it become another race?

I am actually happy to see replies saying race itself being something that should be ignored. I have always believed this myself. Even the three race thing seemed equal to me as we all started at the same time but either way works for me.

Has it been determined if we started in any one place or not as humanity?

I apologize for the late reply because I wrote that right before bed. But to me, as I said there isn't so much a physical appearance difference as there is in simply styles of fashion, hair, makeup, etc.

If I guess that someone might be Korean, or Chinese, or Japanese, it's based on those factors, and less to do with facial structure. If only Steam made it easier to post images on the forums, I'd be interested to see your guesses if I posted pictures of people from different countries in East Asia.

[Heitor Villa-Lobos]

There are hundreds of ethnicities in America and Asia. Maybe dozens in Africa. There must be like 6-8 different ethnicities in Europe as well.