Race

[Thomas R.]

Originally Posted by Neutre

What Americans call "race" is actually a grouping containing a mix of ethnicities, physical characteristics, cultures.

Each "race" is diverse in itself.

There are enough Blacks who have strong European physical characteristics, and people from Ethiopia, Namibia, Madagascar, Burkina Faso, and a dozen of other countries look vastly different from each other. Not to mention the different cultures, languages, ethnicities.

I think I read once there is more genetic variation within Africa than there is in the entire rest of the world. The people of Madagascar are quite different being a mix of Indonesian and African.

Although some of the variation in Africa maybe doesn't reach us. I don't think we have a large Pygmy (not sure what else to call them as a group) population. I believe France has something of a Pygmy population, but it ruled many of the African nations where they lived. The Khoisan I don't think leave their homeland very often. Most African Americans I believe are of West and Central African descent, although our President's African father was of the Luo of Kenya.