Yellow race

The yellow race is a generic term indicating the ethnic whole of the groups S made up individuals Xanthoderme S, generally originating in East Asia. The use of this terminology was particularly current in Europe at the 19th century, according to the classification of the human people according to one of the apparent criteria (theory racialist).

According to the current criteria, the individuals of yellow race have a skin clear comparable with those of white Race (with a nuance of yellow, which gave him its name to the race), the hair is very often black and stiff, with sometimes of the even reddish hair chestnut, and the eyes with an eyelid (often called " bridés") are black or brown. Their genes are at the same time dominant and recessive.

Certain countries always use this classification, but its use such as it is remains rare and " is more often employed; Asiatique" (although the people of Asia have a large variety of physical criteria, often different from Be-Asian) such as for example the the United States of America or more rarely " Mongoloïde". The " term; Oriental" was usually employed in the country, but now became pejorative.

The relevance of the classification of humanity in races today is strongly disputed, in particular because of the Séquençage of the human Génome : Craig Venter affirms that in spite of the morphological differences, it is impossible to cut out humanity in several races, with the scientific direction of the mot. the term of race remains however of an employment running in certain languages to indicate the Ethnie S.

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