Black, White, Chinese...What's the 'real' difference?

Well, this may seem like an odd question but it has bugged me for a while. I'm not so au fais with Biology, Genetics and the like so would appreciate it if someone could enlighten me. They say that every person is different and that all humans are 99.99% alike, I don't know if that is a true estimate. But within races, for there to actually be races, that is for people to be distinguishable as being Black, White, Chinese etc..wtih their own set of unique, discernable features there must be SOMETHING in the genes unique to each race which defines them - which gives them the physical traits that they possess as a race (such as curly hair or dark/light skin) and seperates samples of Human DNA from different races.

What is it?

Black, White, Chinese...What's the 'real' difference?

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Black and white are skin colors/races and Chinese is a nationality/ethnicity.

Black, White, Chinese...What's the 'real' difference?

there are biological and structural differences

Black, White, Chinese...What's the 'real' difference?

Its the skin color than makes the races different. Also the height and size.

Black, White, Chinese...What's the 'real' difference?

Chinese is not a race - it is a nationality...

Black, White, Chinese...What's the 'real' difference?

Chinese is a nationality, not a race.

However, I do not believe there is a specific body structure or much of anything that is limited to each race.

It is possible (because whites have the least amount of pigment, although we have a healthy amount, it is in the least amount, that we are able to have different colored eyes and hair). That might be considered unique to us naturally, but it's to do with pigment.

A lot of people say that White people have skinny long noses, and small lips. (But many members of many races do. Look at Kobe Bryant. Thin lips, slim long nose). There's one example.

For every person who is stereotyped to be a certain way, you could find a person that breaks that stereotype. A Flat bodied thin lipped black women, and curvy luscious Asian and white women (et cetera).

I was once told white women had flat skinny pale bodies and that the only way we could have shape was if we got implants or fat injections. But I have a double D size chest, and I didn't get them from being fat, or from implants. They're not the biggest size, but they're a decent size, and I'm certainly not flat. It's just what I got after I hit puberty.

I was told that white women are supposed to be tall, but I'm only 5,4. I have fuller lips, though not THAT full, but fuller than people typically think of a white person, who is said to have "thin" lips. I've seen white and black (and other) people with slanted eyes, and that is said to be simply an Asian trait. I've seen whites with darker skin than certain Asians who so happened to be more pale. Even so, the darker skinned person is still called "white" because that is their race.

lol Race is a hilarious thing. Aside from cultural and racial differences, individually, everyone is different, and it isn't confined to the color of some ones skin. Individuals have no limitations. We are naturally different from one another, without needing to bring race into it.

Black, White, Chinese...What's the 'real' difference?

There are quite a few differences that may seem minute, but if you had to change your customary way of living you would definately notice. For example, some of the difference, food, culures, religion, certain genetically predisposed like sickle cell (blacks only get this disease). These are just some that i can think of off the top of my head

Black, White, Chinese...What's the 'real' difference?

Physical appearance...

Black, White, Chinese...What's the 'real' difference?

99.9% is about right as humans as a species are very recent %26amp; everyone of us can be traced back to a population of less than 2000 people in Africa 100;000yrs ago, by the Mitrcondria dna (only inherited from your mother %26amp; her mother's for thousands of generations without blending/mixing with their mates like all the rest of the D.N.A. do.) except 4 chance mutations that if not fatal will then be passed to all of a mother and dauther desendants. ---- The variation between a Russian, Japanese, Zulu, Mexican %26amp; Hawiian Mitrcondria, is a tiny fraction of the variation , found between Congo chimps found on different sides of the same wild, wide river. This is because 100,000yrs ago chimps, gorrillas, wolves eta numbered in their millions and were more succesfull as species than humans who only numbered in the thousands before this.

-- The human apperance differences are only minor regional differences reflecting climate where/ when most ansesters lived.

-- Most people alive today are a hybred mix due to Roman, Greek, Ganges Ghan's Mongolian raiders, Viking eta expanding their empires %26amp; fathering children in faraway lands as well as taking thousands of slaves to the new lands %26amp; bringing home captive exotic brides. Most of whom also muddied/ mixed the new geanpools.

--Also a common currency for trade,(By camel, foot or ship) has allways been sex resuting in mixed children who in turn produce more children.-- 2 mixed X by 20 generations = 1,000,000 desendents. -Abraham ,Moses,Ganges Garn must have billions of desendents now.

--Just look at the modern genetic mixing pot in the U.S, Australia (im irish ,scot, spainish, middle east %26amp; aboriginal mix.) New Zealand %26amp; Europe now.

-- Scientist estimate that over 90% of human genetic variations inccleding genetic diseases are found in every country in the world.

Black, White, Chinese...What's the 'real' difference?

way of life

Black, White, Chinese...What's the 'real' difference?

European classifications. That is the difference.

Black, White, Chinese...What's the 'real' difference?

Appearance that has evolved from living in different environments throughout the world.