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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
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 ...
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.
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 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.
Fearon [3] instead is trying to construct the 'right list' of ethnic groups which 'depends on what people in the country identify as the most socially relevant ethnic groupings'. This approach has the advantage of being closer to what the theory would want and the disadvantage of having to make judgement calls (or adopt others' judgement calls ...
The following is a list of contemporary ethnic groups.There has been constant debate over the classification of ethnic groups.Membership of an ethnic group tends to be associated with shared ancestry, history, homeland, language or dialect and cultural heritage; where the term "culture" specifically includes aspects such as religion, mythology and ritual, cuisine, dressing (clothing) style and ...