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The Mediterranean race (also Mediterranid race) is an obsolete racial classification of humans based on the now-disproven theory of biological race. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] According to writers of the late 19th to mid-20th centuries it was a sub-race of the Caucasian race . [ 4 ]
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The Jewish population of Europe in 2010 was estimated to be approximately 1.4 million (0.2% of European population) or 10% of the world's Jewish population. [89] In the 21st century, France has the largest Jewish population in Europe , [ 89 ] [ 90 ] followed by the United Kingdom, Germany, Russia and Ukraine.
Boyle Finniss [4] First Premier of South Australia 1807 Itamar Franco [5] Former President of Brazil 1930 John Paul Getty, Jr. British oil heir 1932 E. T. Hooley [6] Australian explorer 1842 Oceanus Hopkins: Only child born on Mayflower voyage 1620 1620 Tommy Hughes [7] Australian footballer 1886 Mary Jemison [8] American frontierswoman 1743
Race is a categorization of humans based on shared physical or social qualities into groups generally viewed as distinct within a given society. [1] The term came into common usage during the 16th century, when it was used to refer to groups of various kinds, including those characterized by close kinship relations. [2]
While people nowadays are enumerated by race based on self-identification, until 1950 their race on the census was mainly determined by their census enumerator. [176] During this time multiracial people who were White and of another race were usually marked down as belonging to the other race due to the One drop rule. [176]
The word "race", interpreted to mean an identifiable group of people who share a common descent, was introduced into English in the 16th century from the Old French rasse (1512), from Italian razza: the Oxford English Dictionary cites the earliest example around the mid-16th century and defines its early meaning as a "group of people belonging to the same family and descended from a common ...
Vacher de Lapouge's classification was mirrored in William Z. Ripley in The Races of Europe (1899), a book which had a large influence on American white supremacism. Ripley even made a map of Europe according to the alleged cephalic index of its inhabitants. He was an important influence of the American eugenist Madison Grant. Joseph Deniker