What race are Armenians?

Answer 1

Armenian people are of the indo-European race found in the Armenian plateau

Answer 2

This is a contentious issue (see the discussion section for the animosity previously) and there are really three major perspectives, split into three general groups:

Answers A: Armenians are a distinct race of their own (usually espoused by Armenians)

Answers B: Armenians are Caucasian/White (usually espoused by Caucasian-Majority Countries)

Answers C: Armenians are Middle Eastern/Mediterranean (minority view of Orientalists)

Answers A

Answer A1:

Armenia is a race itself. It is a European country. Armenia is quite an ancient race and one of the oldest country.

Answer A2:

The views advocated by Answers B and C antiquated and obsolete. Asian is not a race. It was mongoloid which included native americans. However, we are in the 21st century and old racist white guys from 1890 no longer hold the only keys to the kingdom. Those old classifications are racists and basic. Armenians ARE NOT WHITE. They date back to antiquity, so who came first the chinese or armenians - we may never know before written history, but they are up there as one of the oldest continuous civilizations know to man. they were classified by old white men as caucasoid, but just cause you call them white don't make them white.

Answers B

Answer B1

Armenians are considered caucasian. It seems someone lacks education. There are only 3 races in the world caucasoid, negroid and Asian. Middle Easterners and Indians are all considered caucasian. The oldest people by historians are southern Africans then followed by the other two. Armenians are a mix of backgrounds. Assyrians, Indo-Europeans, and Middle Easterners. So technically can't be the third oldest country.

Answer B2

There are certainly more than three races in the world, but Armenians are certainly not a race unto themselves. The current racial paradigm as practiced by the United States includes: Whites, Black/African, American Indian and Aleuts, Asian, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander, and Mixed Race. Under these categories, the Armenians' physical characteristics are sufficiently "White" in appearance to justify their inclusion in that racial category, just as all Europeans, North Africans, and Middle Easterners are included in that category.

Answers C

Answer C1

The US Census Bureau definitions, while interesting, capture only what races are relevant from an American legal perspective and do not match "race" as is typically understood: a general skin coloration that can be noted across peoples from a variety of ethnicities and can be matched together. The US Census Bureau, for example, does not recognize any racial difference between Indians (from India), Thais, Indonesians, Chinese, and Ainu of Japan. However, these people look quite different from one another. The US Census Bureau is also nebulous about whether Hispanic is a race or not.

In this Answer, I propose more sensible race definitions that match what people would naturally see:

• White (referring to people of European or Caucasian ancestry as well as to Turkic peoples except those that would more easily categorize as East Asian or Desi)
• Black (referring to people whose ancestors are primarily African)
• Hispanic (referring to people who derive from Latin American countries having a mix of White and Indigenous American ancestry)
• Olive (referring to the olive coloration of most peoples around the Mediterranean Sea)
• Desi (referring to peoples from the Indian Subcontinent)
• East Asian (generally referring to peoples from China, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan)
• Southeast Asian (generally referring to the populations from ASEAN countries, except where those people would be Austronesian)
• Austronesian (generally referring to Filipinos, Indonesians, and Polynesians)
• Indigenous Australian (Aboriginees)
• Indigenous American (Indigenous Tribes from both North and South American)
• Biracial/Multiracial

Under this paradigm, Armenians are predominantly of the Olive Racial Category. This coloration varies, but includes colors that might be mis-identified with a Southern German at their lightest and may be mis-indentified with Pakistani at their darkest. Armenians have this coloration, although they are admittedly at the lighter end of this color spectrum. Similar non-Armenian peoples who have this coloration include: Southern Italians, Southern Spaniards, Arabs, Persians, Amazigh (Berbers), and other North African peoples.