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[–] 18150912? ago 

Darwin notes in half-breeds a return toward the

habits of savage life. He says : " Many years ago,

before I thought of the present subject, I was struck

with the fact that in South America men of complicated

descent between negroes, Indians, and Spaniards rarely

had, whatever the cause might be, a good expression.' '

Livingstone, after speaking of a half-caste man on

the Zambesi, described as a rare monster of inhumanity,

remarks : " It is unaccountable why half-castes such

as he are so much more cruel than the Portuguese;

but such is undoubtedly the case." Humboldt speaks

in strong terms of the bad character of the Zambos,

or half-castes between Indians and negroes, and this

conclusion has been arrived at by various observers.

An inhabitant of Africa remarked to Livingstone, that

God made the white man, God made the black man,

but the devil made the half-castes.

Klapproth states that the intermarriage of Caucasians

and Mongoloid produces half-breeds in whom the

Mongoloid type is always predominant, whatever may

be the sex of the half-breed. Burmeister, who studied

the mulattoes of South America and of the West Indian

Islands, denies that the mulatto is exactly the mean

between his two parents. In the immense majority of

cases his characteristics are borrowed from both races,

but one of them is always predominant, and that is nearly always the negro race. Prunser-Bey passes the

same judgment as far as the mulattoes of Egypt are

concerned. He observes the marked predominance of

the negro type. It is manifest in the form and dimensions

of the skull, in the forehead, usually low and receding,

in the curly woolly hair and in the prognathism (Ribot).

When the conquest of Alexander spread a crust of

Greek culture over the East it had the more important

result of destroying the Greek race. With the corruption

of the Hellenic blood, the Hellenic genius declined,

and little is produced, after the time of Alexander,

worthy of the Hellenic name. The sculptors no longer

created ideal types of gods and men, but made portraits.

For a time portraiture inclined to idealism. The idealism

soon evaporated and the sculptors were no longer artists

but artisans. They were content to copy the types of

the old masters.

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[–] 18293323? ago 

Just in general are Mongolians (Not other Asians, just only Mongols) fully Asian or a mixed race? Many Mongols have traits that would otherwise exist in Caucasians such as large bones, being chubbier and more muscular.

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[–] 18293327? ago 

Its a diet thing. Mongolians eat disproportionally more milk and meat than the average asian.