Talk:Caucasian race/Dumping ground

Koreans

"Racial characteristics of... the Caucasians are found among the people of Korea.... Prof. A. H. Keane, a distinguished ethnologist of Great Britain, maintains that the Korean people were originally of Caucasian stock intermingled with the Mongolian race... [Kean is quoted as saying] In the adjacent Korean Peninsula the Caucasian element is even more marked than among the Tunguses. European features-- light eyes, large nose, hair often brown, full beard, fair and even white skin, tall stature-- are conspicuous especially amongst the upper classes and in the south."

Dauri

"In Manchuria, on the contrary, the Dauri, who live on the Amur, alongside the Manchus, have a strong intermixture of Caucasian blood; they are tall, oval-faced, regular-featured, narrow-cheeked, large-nosed, and brown-haired."

Maori

"There are even cases of a cross with a blonde Caucasian race amonst the Maoris, and especially amongst the Ureweras, who have seen little of Europeans till lately; the urukehu, or red-headed, families and individuals are not infrequent, and the red-head is generally accepted as an indication of a cross between a blonde and brunette race, whilst it is acknowledged that this tribe... struggling with the inhabitants of the mountain and forest land, ultimately amalgamated with them. "

Native Americans

"Native Americans often have more prominent noses than Asians. Eye folds do occur in the Americas, but in only a small proportion of the population. And some Native American groups, particularly in California and the Great Basin, exhibit an unusual amount of facial hair. These characteristics seem to indicate some connection with the Caucasoid or white racial stock, prevalent in southwest Asia, Europe and North Africa."

Australoids

“The Australoids are found to possess some primitive features that denotes the survivals of early Caucasoid varieties. This is the reason for which these peoples are considered a sub-division of the Caucasoid racial stock.”

Haidahs

"[A] great mixture of long and short and intermediate heads in every tribe and almost every village, although the short or round Mongol head predominates; whilst many of the natives [of the Americas], especially the women, show, when washed, skins fairly white and ruddy cheeks, with hair soft and brown; amongst the Haidahs especially, the men when they do not, according to custom, pluck out the hair, have a fine beard and moustache. Holmes says of them: Amongst the Haidahs or Queen Charlotte Island tribes exists a family of coarse red-haired, light-brown-eyed people of hair complexion; and Sproat says: Their young women's skins are as clear and white as those of Englishwomen. These seem to be traces of megalithic Caucasian sea-going race that had lived on the north-east coast of Asia and had been already, perhaps, liberally Mongolised in the process of being driven north and east-- the same race that, un-Mongolised, went south-east into Polynesia."

Ethiopians and Somalis

However, some anthropologists point to Ethiopians, Eritreans, Somalis and Nubians who exhibit phenotypical traits such as orthognathism, keen facial features and smooth hair texture usually exclusive to Caucasoid peoples. They contend such variations are indigenous to these groups and cannot be attributed to invasions from outside Caucasoid peoples as suggested under the Dynastic Race Theory and in more recent biological studies. Such phenotypical variations, they argue, often occur within nuclear family groups and are inherent to what they term “Africoid” peoples, much as there are broad variations in physical stature and body proportions between the Pygmies of the Congo, who generally reach a height of 4.5 feet, and of the Tutsi of Rwanda, whose average height is 6.5 feet and who are described as “gracile”, or gracefully slender. Similarly, they continue, African peoples commonly considered ”Negroid” such as the Senegalese also sometimes lack prognathism..

This view, however, has no shortage of critics who argue that a segment of the Wolof people of Senegal possesses Caucasoid maternal admixture which could very well explain the relatively attenuated prognathism attributed to some members of that population. Critics also point out that the so-called “elongated” physique common to many Ethiopians, Eritreans and Somalis is strictly an adaptive response to living in a tropical environment and not a sign of shared racial ancestry with neighboring black groups as has been proposed:

The elongation of the distal segments of the limbs is also clearly related to the dissipation of metabolically generated heat. Because heat stress and latitude are clearly related, one would expect to find a correlation between the two sets of traits that are associated with adaptation to survival in areas of great ambient temperature, namely, skin color and limb proportions. This is clearly the case in such areas as Equatorial Africa, the tropical portions of South Asia, and northern Australia, although there is little covariation with other sets of inherited traits. In this regard it is interesting to note that the limb proportions of the Predynastic Naqada in Upper Egypt are reported to be “super-Negroid”, meaning that the distal segments are elongated in the fashion of tropical Africans. It would be just as accurate to call them ”super-Veddoid” or ”super-Carpentarian” because skin color intensification and distal limb elongation are apparent wherever people have been long-term residents of the tropics. The term “super-tropical” would be better, as it implies the results of selection associated with a given latitude rather than the more ”racially loaded” term “Negroid.”

People of South Asia

Early 20th century anthropologist Carleton Coon wrote in the 1930s that within the Caucasoid race there is a “third division [Mediterraneans which] … included … southern India” but remarked this group had “facial features of a Veddoid character which in some instances suggest Australoid affinities.” He further elaborated that in India there are “Veddoids … individuals who are to all intents and purposes Australoid.” Regarding the exact racial composition of India, Coon admitted, “[T]he racial history of southern Asia has not yet been thoroughly worked out, and it is too early to postulate what these relationships may be … [I] shall leave the problems of Indian physical anthropology in the competent hands of Guha and of Bowles.”

In 1995, geneticist Cavalli-Sforza wrote, “[T]he Caucasoids are mainly fair-skinned peoples, but this group also includes the southern Indians, who live in tropical areas and show signs of a marked darkening in skin pigmentation, although their facial and body traits are Caucasoid rather than African or Australian.”

Ainu

Full-blooded Ainu are mostly fair-skinned, with the men generally having dense hair development. Many early investigators proposed a Caucasian ancestry, although recent DNA tests have found no traces of Caucasian ancestry. The Ainu are generally considered to be the indigenous population of Japan. It is possible that North America had several peoples among its early settlers. The best-known evidence that may support this theory is probably Kennewick Man. Kennewick Man may not have been European but rather resembled Ainu people of northeast Asia.