I haven’t read the article yet,but globelamp is right. I was always told that there were only 3 races, caucasian, negro and oriental (Native Americans and Aborigines would be oriental in that system I think).
Not too too long ago on another thread here someone said there are something like 7 races,but I forget what they all were.
But it makes sense to me with the 5 groups described.
It is silly that so many groups who are,in fact, caucasians (that is to say WHITE) natter on about being “brown” or “asian” or “the other”. So much emphasis is put on skin color and then you watch a show like “Bones” or anything like that and the scientists tell you race just from looking at a skeleton. So clearly the difference in skin is probably the least of it.
Now on to read the article!
Yes, asking “how many races are there” is a bit like asking “how many categories of furniture are there?”. Well, it depends on how much resolution you want.
What the liberals did was essentially to jump from “You can´t say exactly how many kinds of furniture there is” to “Furniture does not exist”. Pretty dumb, but surprisingly effective at shutting down discussion for decades.
When I took Anthropology in college, we were taught:
Caucasian - Europeans, Arabs, Indians
Negroid - Black Africans
Mongoloid - East Asians—Chinese, Japanese, Malays, Thais, etc.
Undifferentiated Mongoloid - Eskimos and American Indians
Australiod - Australian aborigines, New Guineans, Melanesians
Capoid - Bushmen, Hottentots; short brown peoples of South Africa