Race, Racial, The Human Race - The Peace FAQ

Race, Racial, The Human Race

Frequently Asked Questions:

● What is a race of people?

● What is a racist?
● Can one change their ethnicity by adopting a different ethnic culture?

What is a race of people?

● An outdated anthropological term refering to the biological

classification of Human populations; a Homo sapiens sapiens
subgroup. There are only 4 main branches of the Human species that
live today: Africans (aboriginal peoples from subsaharan, west, and
southern Africa - although different African populations are as
unrelated to each other as they are to Asians, or Europeans, etc..),
Asians (aboriginal peoples from east asia, including Japanese,
Korean, Chinese, the Americas, etc...), Australoids (aboriginal
peoples from Australia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, etc),
and Caucasians (aboriginal peoples from Europe, north and east
africa, the near east to India). Groups at the borders of these regions
are often complete mixtures of the intersecting branches and there
exist few "pure" populations today.

The African groups had common ancestry about 150 thousand years
ago when, at the same time, a group of Africans began to migrate
out of Africa. The first of these African groups to separate
geographically and genetically was a group that traveled east to
southeast Asia and then the islands to the south, including Australia,
Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, etc. This occured about 70
thousand years ago. The remaining group, probably located in the
near east split about 40 thousand years ago when a group that would
become the Asians traveled east along the northern boundary of the
glaciation to Asia, some traveling across the Beiring Straight to the
Americas eventually reaching South America. The Caucasians spread
east to India, north to Europe and west to north Africa.

Many groups today with separate identities may be partly or largely

descendants of other groups: African Americans, Australian and

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American Aboriginals are largely European [due primarily to

European rapists, not by any fault of their own], Irish and Iberians
are partly North African, Germans are partly Asian and Jewish, Turks
and Russians are partly Asian, SouthEast Asians and Polynesians are
probably a synthesis of Asians and Australoids, East Africans are a
mixture of African and Caucasian, and Arabs are a mixture of
Caucasian and African [due to the 1,300-year enslavement of
Africans by Muslim Arabs - which continues to this day in Sudan]

The term is also misused as a substitute for the term ethnicity or any
one of the many groups that differentiates itself based on ancestry,
with often dubious distinguishing physical characteristics. Jews,
therefore, are as much a "racial" group as any, as ancestry is a
prerequisite for membership (leaving the controvercial topic of
conversion aside for the moment). Hence, hatred of Jews falls into
the category of a related and also misused term: racism. The term
"racism" is also often misused to apply to hatred of those from a
common religious group or geographic origin - factors that may have
little relation to ancestry or genetics.

- CEJES

What is a racist?

● A racist, according to the dictionary, is one who divides the world

into superior races and inferior races... The term 'racist' should
therefore not be attributed to one who demands full execution of
judgment on his enemies, even if his enemies happen to be Arab.
Nor is 'racist' the correct term for one who objects to the political
platform of Peace Now. The word 'racist' will be applied in Arutz-7
broadcasts only to one who is not willing to accept immigrants from
Ethiopia to his school, or to one who calls those of Moroccan
extraction the derogatory term "Chakh-chakhim", one who terms
those who live in Yesha "mitnachablim"[a play on the word for
'settlers' implying that they are terrorists], one who calls members of
the hareidi [ultra-orthodox] community "blackies", and the like.

- Arutz-7

Can one change their ethnicity by adopting a different ethnic

culture?

● Can a European-American become African-American through

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enjoyment of rap music? Perhaps if they speak Ebonics...?

● "But, again, changes in ethnic identity require more than linguistic

change; the Nogmung cannot become Kachin simply by speaking
Jinghpaw (or Shan, for that matter, by speaking Tai) any more than
the Irish became English just because they finally adopted the
language of their conquerors."

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