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The transmission of the "color terminology" for race from antiquity to early anthropology in 17th century Europe took place via rabbinical literature. Specifically, Pirke De-Rabbi Eliezer (a medieval rabbinical text dated roughly to between the 7th to 12th centuries) contains the division of mankind into three groups based on the three sons of ...
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]
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 ]
The data in the list are also of variable quality and timeliness, as only irregularly updated estimates are available for many countries. Most of the entries in the list come from the Central Intelligence Agency's World Factbook database or from national statistical offices.
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. [91] In the 21st century, France has the largest Jewish population in Europe , [ 91 ] [ 92 ] followed by the United Kingdom, Germany, Russia and Ukraine.
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. [177] 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. [177]
B. List of Ba'alawi people; List of Bahamian Americans; List of Balearics; List of Baloch Americans; List of Baltic German recipients of the military Order of Lāčplēsis
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 ...