Question

Consider the following statements about the Negroid race:

Which of the above statement(s) is/are correct?

• A. Only 1
• B. Only 2
• C. Both of these
• D. None of these

Answer 1

The correct option is A

Only 1

The Semitic people belong to the Negroid race. Negroid races (African, Hottentots, Melanesians/Papua,

“Negrito”, Australian Aborigine, Dravidians, and Sinhalese).

Most anthropologists recognize 3 or 4 basic races of man in existence today. These races can be further subdivided into as many as 30 subgroups.

Ethnographic division into races from Meyers Konversationslexikon of 1885-90 is listing:

• races (Aryans, Hamites, Semites)
• races (northern Mongolian, Chinese and Indo-Chinese, Japanese and Korean, Tibetan, Malayan, Polynesian, Maori, Micronesian, Eskimo, American Indian),
• Negroid races (African, Hottentots, Melanesians/Papua, “Negrito”, Australian Aborigine, Dravidians, Sinhalese)