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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kichwas" data-source="post: 2812108" data-attributes="member: 891">This hasn't been accepted for decades. The last serious attempt to push this 'scientific ideology' upon the world was in Europe in the late 30s, early 40s...Not only that, but you have the number of races wrong.If there were races that differed beyond phenotype, there would be 6 or more - for the 6 major groups that split in pre-history according to modern DNA tracing, and maybe more for the later splits from them.Roughly 80k years ago a group left Africa, and their only surviving descendants are the people who settled Australia and thereabouts.Roughly 40k years ago a second wave that survives into the modern left, and they settled in Central Asia. Around where Iran to Afganistan are today.At about -the same time- this band split into 4 factions, one went to Europe, one to Asia, one to North America, and one stayed put.Despite looking phenotypically similar, Asians and Native Americans are as close to each other as each is to Europeans.We've only known that for a few years though.Finally, there are the people who never left Africa. This gives 6 basic groups from which modern humans descend. Other waves of advanced primates and humans both left Africa, but all of them were wiped out (Homo Erectus which is identical to modern humanity, Neandertal which new DNA shows never interbred with humans, and those newfound 'hobbits' of Indonesia are the best known examples).All that said, what has generally come out is that among the races there is less difference than there is between members. Generally speaking, beyond phenotype, there are no recordable differences in the so-called 'races'. Phenotype however (meaning appearance), dictates cultural alliances quite strongly, and has worked to shape 'us v them' tensions throughout history. That however does not say actual differences might exist, but history, as I will show below, has been working against this differentiation much more than racists presume.Finally, just to b--ch slap you around a bit for your racial presumptiveness...Guns are an example of a Europe influenced by Asia. An Asian invasion in fact. Gengis Khan's army used lines of riflemen when they swept down into what is today known as GERMANY.When his people fell back due to problems at home (the old man died and the sons all had to return if I recall correctly), they left behind many people and a lot of new technology, and they took many people and a lot of technology with them.Thus you have everynow and then a blond Mongolian, and you have people like my NCOIC when I was in the Air Force who was a big burly former biker-gangster white guy with a Mongolian last name because his great-[etc]-great grand pappy was part of the Khan's army and decided to stay in Europe when the others went home - something which is not uncommon to find in central European families.In fact, 1 in 4 males alive today have DNA in them from not just the Mongols, but the Khan himself.</blockquote>

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