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there is only one race = human race

there are sevral different ethnicities however:

black - African American, Caribbean and African

Latino - south Americans who are a mix of native American and spanish

hispanic - this can apply to south Americans and spanish/Italian people

caucasian - white people (eastern europeans, Americans etc)

Asian - Asian covers Indians/pakistannis, and also Chinese/Korean

oriental - east asians (Chinese, thai etc)

polynesian - these are pacific islanders (hawaiians, samoans etc)

middle eastern - people from Lebanon, palestine (inc. Arabic people)

Jewish - who are arguably a mixture of caucasian and middle eastern

hapa - this new race defines anyone half Asian

mixed - anyone who has two or more ethnic origins

Note:

*in Europe Asian means south Asian(Indian) in usa Asian means east Asian (Japanese)

*some people don't like to be called oriental

*polynesians are of mongoloid decent

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