The Oriental race is an antiquated term for a morphological sub-type of the supposed Mediterranean race

Mediterranean race

The Mediterranean race was one of the three sub-categories into which the Caucasian race and the people of Europe were divided by anthropologists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, following the publication of William Z. Ripley's book The Races of Europe...

, used in historical physical anthropology

Physical anthropology

Biological anthropology is that branch of anthropology that studies the physical development of the human species. It plays an important part in paleoanthropology and in forensic anthropology...

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The Arabid race was thought to be predominant in Arabia, and a major element in Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Iran, and Dagestan. It was held to be a common element in Mizrahi Jews

Mizrahi Jews

Mizrahi Jews or Mizrahiyim, , also referred to as Adot HaMizrach are Jews descended from the Jewish communities of the Middle East, North Africa and the Caucasus...

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Richard McCulloch

Richard McCulloch is an American author who has written several books advocating racial segregation.-Theories:A noted white supremacist, McCulloch coined the phrase "declaration of racial independence" in his 1994 book The Racial Compact...

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The Arabid race was distinguished from the West-Mediterranean race by some minor characteristic facial traits. These include the almond eyes, the "Semitic smile" (conditioned by unusually deep Fossa canina), skin color from White to Tanned, etc. This race had in earlier times a broader-formed Syrid subrace, which was found among the farmers of the "Fertile Crescent

Fertile Crescent

The Fertile Crescent, nicknamed "The Cradle of Civilization" for the fact the first civilizations started there, is a crescent-shaped region containing the comparatively moist and fertile land of otherwise arid and semi-arid Western Asia. The term was first used by University of Chicago...

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