The Human Race Game

Today, I had to fill out some paperwork that asked my race. The options were White, Black, Hispanic, Asian, and other. This was over the top. None of these are “races” as defined by modern day physical anthropologists. I wrote in my “Other” race as Caucasoid, which is one of the four main races accepted by experts in the field today. They are:

Australoid
Caucasoid
Mongoloid
Negroid

The attributes with which one is assigned to one of these races do not include external features such as skin color, in fact only skeletal structures and related measurements are used in defining the 4 human races.

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