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Originally posted by bunce101
Australoid
Capoid
Caucasoid
Congoid
Mongoloid
These are the 5 major migration groups who left Africa when all humans were members of a "race" not resembling any which exists today but being the ancestor of all.
Australoids are named because they're best represented in Australian natives, who were isolated from other humans long enough to develop into their own race. They are perhaps the oldest and most isolated still-surviving modern race and also have minor numbers in the extreme southern regions of the Indian subcontinent of Asia.
Capoid and Congoid are both sub-groups of the race once refered to as Negroid, but most anthropologists believe the two were isolated enough and differ dramatically enough to qualify as two unique races, both in different regions of the African continent, and both "black'.
Caucasoids are named after the Caucasus mountain range and historically evolved in the Middle East, Western Asia, and Europe. Although heavy mixture made them ********** in their original homelands, they migrated into Europe and populated it densely. Despite varying the most wildly of all races in pigment, there are almost no internal biological differences between "nordic" and "mediterranean" sub-groups of caucasoid/caucasian. Color variation is in itself a trait of this race.
Mongoloids are the most numerous human race by far and the root word is "Mongol", a nomadic ethnicity which represented their racial type well and helped spread their sphere of influence. They make up the majority of the Asian continent and were also the race natives of the American continents belonged to almost exclusively before European conquest.
Sergio Martinez is a child of two Spanish parents, born in the country of Argentina, located in South America with significant Spanish, Italian, and Native populations.
In pure racial terms, he is predominantly caucasoid (white). He may also have very slight native mixture. In cultural and linguistic terms, he is "Latino".
"Latino" refers to EVERY racial group living in the Americas after Latin (a group of white Europeans) conquest.
This confuses the American perception of race because in America:
1. Race is so taboo that it simply isn't discussed in an academic environment outside of the highest echelons of anthropology, genetics, and medicine. Many Americans believe that short-term adaptations such as blonde vs brown hair alter one's racial status.
2. Socio-economic divisions have transcended race in importance and easily notacable things like tanned skin, spoken language, or even type of music listened to have led the uneducated to create their own definitions of "race". Under these definitions, things like "American", "Latino", and "Black" are considered races, even though they have nothing to do with race.
There is also a common misconception in the US that mixing races creates new races. This is incorrect. This merely creates hybrids of existing races.
New races are created via something called SPECIATION, in which two or more populations are separated for a long enough period that they enter a sub-species state. Sub-species are not separate "species" because they are still reproductively compatible and share most of their genetic makeup, however they possess measurably different average bone dimensions and clinal strains of various DNA mutations.
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