The vast majority of the humans on earth have MIXED ancestry and all have African blood. Every race has mixed with other blood throughout history, especially in Europe (Mongol Asians/Turks/Semitic)

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Nah, that kid would still be partially black, but yeah, it's a fair point.

The idea that the white race is somehow superior to any other is truly bizarre. If you take it from an evolutionary standpoint, white men of European extraction may well be "more" evolved, but pretty much the only thing we have to show for it is having adapted to a climate where there is less sun. So when there is sun, our skin burns and we get skin cancer. Master race my ass.

It all depended on the movement of people, the physical adaptions of the body depending on their location, and the obstacles/interests that specific groups faced that ultimately developed cultures. When the world was explored, people were terrified or intrigued by the differences of these new cultures.

For instance, when white explorers captured African slaves, they viewed them as a "satanic breed" because of their dark skin, opposed to their "heaven bright" white skin. So, they classified them as a separate race, because they didn't consider them to be equal humans

Today, the term can still be used, but in a more scientific sense rather than the prejudice one. After all, we DO see differences among each other, like how Asian people tend to have slanted eyes, and Jewish people are stereotyped as having big noses. Socially, these differences shouldn't have any importance. I mean, people are people. No two people are the same. But, what makes us different than any other organisms, that we are allowed to be classified biologically?