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Originally Posted by Ronin4hire
What makes West Africans a race then? Biologically speaking. Because as I've said... I've never even heard of West Africans as a race even politically speaking.
What reason is that?
What are the scientific human categorizations? (And if you say Caucasoid, Negroid, Mongoloid then you deserve to be beaten about with the 19th century textbook you took that out of)
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You made it sound as though
I defined race by whether they had fast twitch muscles or not. For the purposes of physical sports research, West Africans were made into their own group due to them being born with fast twitch muscles which research shows, gives them a distinct advantage for sprinting and jumping! I don't know whether they took any other traits into count!
You need to get your facts right dude... Scientists believed that different races were better than others up until 1960's when political correctness came into play. At this time, it ignored any type of research based on the superiority of other races. One of the most famous researches/publications made on the superiority of whites compared to blacks was written in the 1950's. I remember specifically the paper saying that observations showed that around teenage years, Blacks bains' development slowed down compared to other races, specifically whites. As stupid as this sounds, this research is not more than a century old as you like to say!
As for what my catogarizations, I don't have a clue!! If I really cared to put people into groups, I'd put them into groups based on regional differences. But as I don't do research on these things, I am simply repeating things that I've read and understood... AND, I believe, like there are different breeds of Dog, there are different breeds of Human... This however doesn't mean that I believe one is better or worse than the other, or that one is more valuable than the other... It is simply a way to help us understand why there are clear differences between us. Otherwise, one could easily say EVERYONE is different, which is true, but doesn't help anything.