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How many human races exist?

How many human races are there?

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How many human races are there?
 
How many human races are there?

That depends on the culture / society which you're asking...it's a subjective thing. Though I have a feeling you mean 'human race' as in 'gotcha - haha - there's just one'
 
That depends on the culture / society which you're asking...it's a subjective thing. Though I have a feeling you mean 'human race' as in 'gotcha - haha - there's just one'


Beats me, but I've come to suspect that Asians are of extraterrestrial origin... by Western standards some of 'em are mighty strange. No offense intended, present company excepted, etc etc etc.

 
Nope, I'm trying to get a feeling for what people believe. Is there one human race, or several? Such as "Mongoloid", "Negroid", "Caucasoid"....etc.
 
Nope, I'm trying to get a feeling for what people believe. Is there one human race, or several? Such as "Mongoloid", "Negroid", "Caucasoid"....etc.

This: There's an endless variety in which various dominant physical traits can be blended together.

The US: we're lame when it comes to classifying races - we choose skin color . . . and that's pretty much it. We're quite stupid. Other cultures opt for a more complicated thing; skin tone, hair texture, facial features, etc etc etc. It's more interesting.
 
Nope, I'm trying to get a feeling for what people believe. Is there one human race, or several? Such as "Mongoloid", "Negroid", "Caucasoid"....etc.

Well, as I child I was taught "red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in his sight", so I figured there must be four, but when I think of the *human race*, there is only one. Race is essentially the product and result of human migration, and the differences are cultural, rather than color-related.
 
I keep hearing that race is completely fictional, a social construct that means nothing.


...but that doesn't change the fact that we still describe people as asian, black, arabic, etc... and that when we say these words, people know what we mean.
 
Is this the same question as, "how many species are there?"
 
So, if you have a **** ton of common house flies that have been isolated, and they all developed, over a period of time, red eyes....and another **** ton of them across the way, also isolated, that developed black eyes....


Would you consider them to be of different race/species?

I guess my question is, how far apart do two families have to become, in order to be considered a different species?

To answer the OP, near as I can tell, there is only ONE species of human.
 
Bacteria, fish, monkeys, humans. Explains a lot, doesn't it? In another 30K years, it will be different.
 
Bacteria, fish, monkeys, humans. Explains a lot, doesn't it? In another 30K years, it will be different.
Yeah, we'll all be fluorescent orange with garish green polka dots, have 4ft mandibles and eat Semtex. The club footers will be the new sex symbols.

Mother Nature's an avid fan of Manga.
 
That's exactly what gods plan is. You must be an insider.:)

Yeah, we'll all be fluorescent orange with garish green polka dots, have 4ft mandibles and eat Semtex. The club footers will be the new sex symbols.

Mother Nature's an avid fan of Manga.
 
So, if you have a **** ton of common house flies that have been isolated, and they all developed, over a period of time, red eyes....and another **** ton of them across the way, also isolated, that developed black eyes....


Would you consider them to be of different race/species?

I guess my question is, how far apart do two families have to become, in order to be considered a different species?

To answer the OP, near as I can tell, there is only ONE species of human.

Race is just so nebulous as to be useless in these types of discussions. Yes, when it is asked on an application or something I know I am supposed to put white or Caucasian, but biologically, I don’t know what the hell race is equivalent to.

It certainly can’t mean species, because that is a no-brainer. There is only one species of human that exists today. I wonder if race in humans is supposed to be the equivalent of breed in dogs, or strain in bacteria. If that is the case then there are a LOT of races. I don’t think there are any sub-species of humans. Aborigines and non-Aborigines might have been able to be considered two separate sub-species back when they were isolated, but those days are gone. And I might be completely off the mark on that one.
 
I keep hearing that race is completely fictional, a social construct that means nothing.


...but that doesn't change the fact that we still describe people as asian, black, arabic, etc... and that when we say these words, people know what we mean.

I mean, you answered your own rhetorical question...

and "means nothing", in context, means that race shouldn't mean anything to anyone... meaning it's rather stupid, because we are a rainbow, not groups of paint buckets full of one color and when you mix two together it makes a different one.
 
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Yes, when it is asked on an application or something I know I am supposed to put white or Caucasian, but biologically, I don’t know what the hell race is equivalent to.

Biologically race is equivalent to less than 0.01% of genetic differences between the human race. Thus it is too insignificant to weigh as a biological construct.

But because the phenotype is visible to all some generalizations can be made such as: Caucasian, Negro, etc. Since it is more phenotype and not genetic basis it is more used as a social construct.
 
Was asked the same question on the first day of my World Geography class in high school, with the same options too.
 
there are just one human race.

if you have two poodles, one white and one black, none will tell you that they are two different poodle races.
same is at human beings.
they looks different, that´s all.
 
That depends on how Mac defines race.

Until Mac explicitly states his definition of race, it's all a waste of time.

He likely meant either ethnicity or, members of the "Homo" Genus
 
That depends on how Mac defines race.

Until Mac explicitly states his definition of race, it's all a waste of time.

No, I asked...I didn't define anything. Why are you afraid of the question?
 
I keep hearing that race is completely fictional, a social construct that means nothing.


...but that doesn't change the fact that we still describe people as asian, black, arabic, etc... and that when we say these words, people know what we mean.

We also call people Irish, Catholic, and Southern too.
 
That depends on how Mac defines race.

Until Mac explicitly states his definition of race, it's all a waste of time.

I'm not asking people what I think. I'm asking people what they think.
 
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