NineInchCock_160IQ:
Originally posted by jonb+Feb 12 2005, 06:13 PM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(jonb @ Feb 12 2005, 06:13 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteBegin-TragicWhiteKnight@Feb 12 2005, 03:20 AM
I think the last person to believe there were only three races was Wagner: giants, dwarves and humans [or blacks, Jews and whites, respectively]
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Yanno, I was listening to "Ride of the Valkyries" the other day, and I got a sudden urge to invade Poland. LOL
Seriously, usually three races is used by k00ks to "prove" that this or that came from somewhere else. So if a statue of an Indian in Mexico has thick lips or a big nose, that's proof of Malians founding ancient Mexico. Or if a skull's found in North America where the nasal index or cephalic index is just a little low (even though both are typically lower, at least among plains tribes, than they are in Caucasians), it's proof Indians wiped out whites who were in North America before Indians some time in the Lower Holocene -- while still managing to wipe out large Pleistocene mammals like mammoths, megatheria. and saber-tooth tigers. (One of these days, I expect they'll blame us for the extinction of the trilobite.)
Wait . . . Black giants? Outside of eastern Africa, they're typically no taller than anyone else. Sometimes extremely short.
naughty -- from the Enlightenment to UNESCO, different naturalists came up with two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, twelve, fifteen, twenty-six, thirty-three, sixty, or sixty-three races, depending on the person's preference. It's like how Japanese swear they can spot a Korean, but most of us can't tell the difference.
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No no no no... Native American Indians are really from Jerusalem. They used to be white like all of the people God loves but God turned their skin red as punishment for killing one of the other Israeli tribes in America. It's all in the book of Mormon. Jesus people, read something once in a while. :angry:
seriously though... as I mentioned in some other thread, I think the whole concept of "race" is bupkiss. I mean, it's not as if an asian and a latino or an african and a jew hook-up they are going to have infertile offspring. All you really have is differences in the degree of prevalence of certain dominant genes that do affect personal apperance in different regions of the world. You also have common culture springing up which often gives rise to intermarriage and establishement of new "races"... people connected by religion, language, politics or geography. Regions that are close together have people with more in common genetically than regions that are far apart. Which is why, for instance, Koreans look more like Japanese than they do like the Portuguese. Personally I think there is a huge difference between the way Koreans look and the way the Japanese look. Tragic, you honestly can't spot the difference? The more exposure you have to people of a certain ethnicity the less similar they all start to look to each other..
In my opinion, either there is ONE race, the human race, or else you need to include WAY more than 3. I don't even know which 3 you're talking about, even from an ethno-centric American WASP point of view I'd at least expect "whites", "blacks", "asians" and "latinos" to make the cut (sometimes "Arabs" or "Jews" but they're not that important). Though this kind of limited labeling says nothing of the differences between Greeks and Swedes, Mestizos and Quiche, Persians and Jews, Eskimos and Cherokee, Tutsis and Hutus, or Samoans and Punjabi... of which there are many... some more pronounced than others.
Just some food for thought. Hey if anyone else wants to invade Poland I'm up for it. Beautiful women and good ice cream there...
:ninja: <--- hey look it's Ted Danson.
