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Remember the time, when the europeans always wanted to "classify" the different races of man, and there was a man who divided it into 3 distinct "races", 1.Negroid 2.Caucasoid 3.Mongoloid. Leslie, i am trying to figure out which one is older, the reasoning of these 3 distinct "races", or the definitions in the dictionary that was proposed.Because, if the former is older, then that would mean that these dividers/"classifiers" knew that even though the "negroid" had different physical characteristics, they still had common features, thus all were classiefied as such, the same goes for the other 2 "races".I understand that your going by the meaning of the dictionary definition, in order to be accurate, nothing wrong with that, and thats something that a truth-seeker would do.But im sure that the europeans who stood by the negroid/caucasoid/mongoloid reasoning knew what it took to make up a "race", and most likely the definition that went with it in those times.
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