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The fact that the question is even asked is a pretty good illustration of just how absurd and muddled the entire concept of 'race' is. Newsflash people, 'race' ain't real, it's just an arbitrary and wildly incoherent classification system that served a useful political and economic function for certain groups and has been maintained because it still does plus that deeply rooted and often repeated ideas gain an inertia and persistence all of their own.Comment
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What Citizen Koba just said. However, if you are interested in the ethnic and linguistic heritage of the Chechens, then here's a little snippet from Wikipedia's "Prehistory and origin":The Chechens are one of the Nakh peoples, who have lived in the highlands of the North Caucasus region since prehistory.[34] There is archeological evidence of historical continuity dating back to 3000 B.C.[35][34] as well as evidence pointing to their ancestors’ migration from the Fertile Crescent c. 10,000–8,000 B.C.[35]
The discussion of their origins is intertwined with the discussion of the mysterious origins of Nakh peoples as a whole. The only three surviving Nakh peoples are Chechens, Ingush and Bats, but they are thought by some scholars to be the remnants of what was once a larger family of peoples.[citation needed]
They are thought to either be descended from original settlers of the Caucasus (North and/or South)[36][37] or supposedly Nakh-speaking ethnic ********** in the north-eastern regions of the ancient state of Urartu (whose people also spoke a language that was possibly related to the Nakh languages).[38] The two theories are not mutually incompatible, and there has been much evidence that seems to link the two (either by dual origins or the "return" theory, in which the Nakh peoples originally lived in the Caucasus, migrated down to the south, lived there for a long period of time, and then returned to the Caucasus).
According to the opinion of Caucasus folklorist Amjad Jaimoukha, "It is certain that the Nakh constituted an important component of the Hurrian-Urartian tribes in the Trans-Caucasus and played a role in the development of their influential cultures."[19]
Amjad Jaimoukha notes in his book The Chechens: "Some authorities believe that the Nakh nation was an offspring of the Hurrians and Urartians, builders of the magnificent civilizations of the Near East, that had profound influences upon other cultures of the region."[39] According to some data, Chechens are genetically, linguistically and anthropologically considered the descendants of the Hurrians and Urartians.[40][41][39][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50]
Other scholars, however, doubt that the language families are related,[51][52][53] or believe that, while a connection is possible, the evidence is far from conclusive.[54][55][56] Uralicist and Indo-Europeanist Petri Kallio argues that the matter is hindered by the lack of consensus about how to reconstruct Proto-Northeast-Caucasian, but that Alarodian is the most promising proposal for relations with Northeast Caucasian, greater than rival proposals to link it with Northwest Caucasian or other families.[57] However, nothing is known about Alarodians except that they "were armed like the Colchians and Saspeires," according to Herodotus.[58] Colchians and Saspeires are generally associated with Kartvelians or Scythians. Additionally, leading Urartologist Paul Zimansky rejected a connection between Urartians and Alarodians.[59]
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They're obviously a couple of white guysComment
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Youtuber boxingego hasn't acknowledged their fight, so I'd say white.
"Old media is racist" - boxingego hypocrisyComment
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LOL this is the biggest phony baloney nonsense ever. News flash...Race IS REAL, if it wasnt then Geneticists wouldnt be able to determine your race with a saliva sample or an anthropologist wouldnt be able to to determine your race with the measurements of your skull.
Mixed race people who have blood cancer have much lower chances of finding a donor because they need donors from similar genetic background.
So yea, race is very real.Comment
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