Not Russians

I am white and Puerto Rican. Not allowed to say I am Puerto Rican though because something something white privalge

Even though they are a minority group in China, just wanted to clarify

That's weird

But the Han are not, because the Han only come up as a term after the _Han Dynasty_.

How come half white and half black people get to say they're black

If you mean **Mongoloid**, that's something else.

I dunno what they called themselves before

It's not what China calls herself now.

China in the commonly accepted Chinese is _Zhongguo_.

I know. Middle country

中国人民

PRC

Okay, but then my point remains that the Han didn't exist far back enough to say that all Asians are descendant from them.

The word didn't. The DNA did

And it's generally believed, so far as I remember from school, perhaps new discoveries have been made into racial history, but the Asian "race", as loosely as you can define it, the Mongoloids, came form the Steppes, not where China is now.

Some of the minorities aren't even different in genetics, just in culture

Yeah you're right

But that was probably before they even looked like Asians

Perhaps, but I had to be autistically specific about this.

In any case, apologies for derailing you for so long.

Nah man you're good

I'm glad that we could be civil, in that case.

It's such a relief to find someone intelligent

Well no reason not to be civil. We didn't really disagree, just used different terminolo

Terminology

Now here's an interesting question for you

I'll try to answer it as best I can.

We Christians have always heard of races being divided into Semitic, Hamitic, and Japhetic

I've always heard of Hamitic being black people

And Japhetic being Asians

But I've also read an idea that Hamitic people were white people in North Africa

Which one do you think is right?

From what I understand as of right now, the Hamitics - going back into history as the term has fallen out of use - referred to Africans but not necessarily _blacks_.

The Kushites and Abyssinians were considered Hamitics for quite a while, but now they'd be Sudanese and Ethiopian.

Respectively.

On a technicality, they would be part of the Caucasoid group, which makes them cousins to whites more than whites themselves.

However, there's also significant admixture of Congoloids, now these would be the West African and down kinds of blacks that most are familiar with when thinking of Africa.

(Admixture of Congoloids has increased over the centuries, so DNA tests on preserved rulers and slaves tell us in these regions in East Africa, meaning they could've been paler back then.)

Hmm

In this respect I'd say that the Hamitic people would be considered the "cousins", if that makes sense, of Europeans. Distantly related, further than Semitic people would be, but somewhat closer to Europe than contemporary Africa.