White ethiopeans

Originally posted by xi_tujue Is it true that ethiopeans are caucasoid whats the deal.     Caucasoid gene flow into the Ethiopian gene pool was predominantly through males     also they claim to be descendents of king solomon

Well racially ethiopeans are in between Caucasoids and Negroids.

Originally posted by Herschel I thought it was less of a skin color similarity, but rather a skull shape...???

Yeah, It is more about skull types and face structures.

They look more Indian 

Caucasoid =! white

Its a skull shape, not a skin colour.

Anyways, Ethiopia and other parts of East Africa is effectivly a boundary zone, like Central Asia, simplistic asumptions of Caucasoid Vs Negroid are challenged. As such its a case of seeing what you want to see.

Its largely the result of American/N. American culture appropiating the Caucasian label to refer to European Americans amoungst whom real Cuacasians are few and far between, and then exporting that notion in their popular culture.

Interestingly though, according the US census folks, Arabs, Persians, Assyrians etc are counted as Caucasians (even if regular Joe yank might disagree), but Indians is iffy, there've been a few court cases way back in the day during the 'caucasian only' migration peroid that swung them both ways, but nowadays suprisingly they are officialy counted under Asian (suprising considering the stubborn insistance by US popular culture that Asianness is linked virtualy exclusivly to loooking like Jackie Chan, Imran Khans can take a hike).

So from the offset it was inconsistant, and often at odds with mainstream American cultural views, but its pervalence outside of the US is testemony to the cultural dominance of the US.

And yeah, cliche does work there, it is a hugely overused and obvious remark, even if its not entirely accurate.

Edited by Cywr - 24-Jul-2006 at 13:52

They are according to anthropologists, or at least many are, but i guess for US immigration types in the begining of the 1900s, some of them were just too dark.
Of course, irrigardless of whether or not they are caucasoid, they are unquestionably Asian, as a simple glance at a map will reveal.

Originally posted by darkwolf Ethiopeans may have been influenced by the christian realm of Prester John. According many historians this realm existed in the middle age on the ethiopian region.

According to what I have read, most medieval people considered Prester John to be from somewhere deep in Asia. Prester John is considered mythology.

As a side note, Somalians are also classified as anthropological caucasians as well.   I addition to the very dominant negroid race in Africa, there are two other races in Sub Sahara Africa.

Edited by Cryptic - 12-Aug-2006 at 19:30

Soamalis are a mixture of Caucasoid and negroid. As said above, those areas are border regions, where such distinctions are not as valid.

The makarnis are a negroid group that migrated to what is now Pakistan in ancient times.