Are you and your SO the same race?

[bora bora 1]

From Wikipedia:

The term race refers to the concept of dividing people into populations or groups on the basis of various sets of characteristics and beliefs about common ancestry.^[1] The most widely used human racial categories are based on visible traits (especially skin color, facial features and hair texture), and self-identification.^[2]

Conceptions of race, as well as specific ways of grouping races, vary by culture and over time, and are often controversial for scientific as well as social and political reasons. The controversy ultimately revolves around whether or not races are natural types or socially constructed, and the degree to which observed differences in ability and achievement, categorized on the basis of race, are a product of inherited (i.e. genetic) traits or environmental, social and cultural factors.

Some argue that although "race" is a valid taxonomic concept in other species, it cannot be applied to humans.^[3] Many scientists have argued that race definitions are imprecise, arbitrary, derived from custom, have many exceptions, have many gradations, and that the numbers of races delineated vary according to the culture making the racial distinctions; thus they reject the notion that any definition of race pertaining to humans can have taxonomic rigour and validity.^[4] Today most scientists study human genotypic and phenotypic variation using concepts such as "population" and "clinal gradation". Many anthropologists contend that while the features on which racial categorizations are made may be based on genetic factors, the idea of race itself, and actual divisions of persons into groups based on selected hereditary features, are social constructs.^{[5][6][7][8][9][10]}

[Marilyn. 340]

my ancestors are mainly from Europe and hubby's are from Mexico...

[raymaga 25]

Both our ancestors are from Germany or Hungary originally, with many generations afterwards in Canada or the U.S.

[~krakatoa~ 27]

Husband's roots are Scottish, Irish, German, Sicilian and English. I, on the other hand, have Spanish, Chinese, Malay blood in me.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

We both belong to the human race.

[~krakatoa~ 27]

We both belong to the human race.

[JVKn'CVO 11]

Me: 3/4 spanish (south of Spain), 1/4 italian

Justin: 1/2 german, 1/2 russian

Saludos,

Caro

[Dr. Obvious 49]

No, he's a garden gnome and I am a forest troll.

[*JG* 2]

We both belong to the human race.

I was thinking the same thing.

This question is just not as easy as it used to be. The world is such a huge melting pot now.

My family tree has some Germans and American Indians on it. My husband's has Germans and Jamaicans.

[Ms. Squirrel 11]

We are both Caucasian (was that was the questions was aiming for? ), so we do not have an interracial relationship, but an still a funky international one.

Jeffrey being New Zealander with Scottish roots and a broad Kiwi accent. I am 1/2 French, 1/4 Spanish (rather Catalan), 1/4 Czech.

Born and raised in Germany, I was brought up with a heavy Spanish influence because of my Mom (1/2 French/ 1/2 Catalan) and Grandma (100% Catalan - most stubborn person I've ever met) and grew up in the Jewish community in Frankfurt (my Czech Grandmother was Oscar Schindler's secretary, they both grew up in Svitavy).

All true, but very confusing. I am never sure which country to cheer for during world cups.

[SqdnGuns 21]

I'm a mutt, 100% Red Blooded American, better half is Thai/Cambodian.

Edited November 26, 2007 by SqdnGuns

[Marlita 0]

We are both Caucasian (was that was the questions was aiming for? ), so we do not have an interracial relationship, but an still a funky international one.

Jeffrey being New Zealander with Scottish roots and a broad Kiwi accent. I am 1/2 French, 1/4 Spanish (rather Catalan), 1/4 Czech.

Born and raised in Germany, I was brought up with a heavy Spanish influence because of my Mom (1/2 French/ 1/2 Catalan) and Grandma (100% Catalan - most stubborn person I've ever met) and grew up in the Jewish community in Frankfurt (my Czech Grandmother was Oscar Schindler's secretary, they both grew up in Svitavy).

All true, but very confusing. I am never sure which country to cheer for during world cups.

This is interesting, because NO ONE answered with what their RACE is! Rather you all answered with what Nationaliy your heritage belongs to. Saying Spanish, Polish, German, etc....does not mean race. I think HUMAN RACE is what we all belong to. Now as far as our ethnic nationalites...thats a different topic.

[Ta Ta 1]

me , white, German

he , black, Sierra Leonean W. Africa

[chri'stina 190]

I said no, but I think it's tricky. I have actually read in several places that Caucasian also can cover people from India and other parts of Asia and north Africa. So Caucasian is used usually for lighter skinned ppl, European descent, but I think the word actually includes a lot more people than that, technically. Ethnically me and hubby are very different, racially(by terms) maybe not.

[PlatyPius 5]

I said no, but I think it's tricky. I have actually read in several places that Caucasian also can cover people from India and other parts of Asia and north Africa. So Caucasian is used usually for lighter skinned ppl, European descent, but I think the word actually includes a lot more people than that, technically. Ethnically me and hubby are very different, racially(by terms) maybe not.

Yes, people from India are sometimes considered caucasian. Other people/groups consider them to be Asian.

All race does is catalogue people based on their physiology. Blacks have different physical characteristics than Asians, who are different than Caucasians. People are people, they just look different based on where they were born and what genes they have.