At the risk of sounding like SOT9, I've never really understood this way of thinking. To what period in time are we defining our ancestry? Some people in my family are very into genealogy so I can speak somewhat to this issue. If I take my own ancestry back on only a single grandparent's side, I am from America for several hundred years, Germany for several hundred, and the landmass that is now Belgium before that. What then am I to call myself? I know on another grandparent's side, I have a tiny portion of what would be called Native American blood. Am I simply a mutt, or should we take up calling ourselves by what we are now instead of the jumbled mess that is our pasts?
Yes, I think I know what you mean. Humanity has always been moving and spreading. Even if we weren't all mixed we couldn't really say one place where our ancestors came from. Exept of course if you go back far enough everyone's from Africa.
Your ancestry would be the same as your race.
For example I was born in America, as were all my grandparents, but my race is not American. Its Northern European, because if I were to get a dna test, the results would show that is where my genes are from. You would be European with a bit of Native American, so by definition you are mixed. Your race or ancestry is what a dna test would reveal.
I think you are a bit confused;
The world population can be divided into 4 major races, namely white/Caucasian, Mongoloid/Asian, Negroid/Black, and Australoid. This is based on a racial classification made by Carleton S. Coon in 1962. The United Nations, in a 1950 statement, opted to “drop the term ‘race’ altogether and speak of “ethnic groups”. In this case, there are more than 5,000 ethnic groups in the world, according to a 1998 study published in the Scientific American.
I believe what you are referring to is “ethnic groups”, not the 4 races.
Is it normal to be infuriated by the term
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At the risk of sounding like SOT9, I've never really understood this way of thinking. To what period in time are we defining our ancestry? Some people in my family are very into genealogy so I can speak somewhat to this issue. If I take my own ancestry back on only a single grandparent's side, I am from America for several hundred years, Germany for several hundred, and the landmass that is now Belgium before that. What then am I to call myself? I know on another grandparent's side, I have a tiny portion of what would be called Native American blood. Am I simply a mutt, or should we take up calling ourselves by what we are now instead of the jumbled mess that is our pasts?
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Yes, I think I know what you mean. Humanity has always been moving and spreading. Even if we weren't all mixed we couldn't really say one place where our ancestors came from. Exept of course if you go back far enough everyone's from Africa.
Your ancestry would be the same as your race.
For example I was born in America, as were all my grandparents, but my race is not American. Its Northern European, because if I were to get a dna test, the results would show that is where my genes are from. You would be European with a bit of Native American, so by definition you are mixed. Your race or ancestry is what a dna test would reveal.
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I think you are a bit confused;
The world population can be divided into 4 major races, namely white/Caucasian, Mongoloid/Asian, Negroid/Black, and Australoid. This is based on a racial classification made by Carleton S. Coon in 1962. The United Nations, in a 1950 statement, opted to “drop the term ‘race’ altogether and speak of “ethnic groups”. In this case, there are more than 5,000 ethnic groups in the world, according to a 1998 study published in the Scientific American.
I believe what you are referring to is “ethnic groups”, not the 4 races.