The amazing landscape that is shown in the main photo is considered the main place of residence, formation and development of the Dinaric race. What traits are inherent in people whose origins originate in such an amazing place, filled with the genuine grandeur of nature and the stunning beauty of powerful mountains?
Definition
Before proceeding to consider the features of the Dinaric race, let's get acquainted with the very concept of "race".
We all realize that we look different, and what determines the differences in appearance and whether they are racial in nature is described below.
What is a race? Some scientists endow this concept with biological significance, while others tend to use a social approach.
Given various scientific approaches, it can be said that race is a classification of people based on various parameters, such as genetic and biological traits, as well as language, culture, traditions and social practices.
The main parameter for the classification was the genetic composition, which externally manifests itself as an anatomical species, however, it is rather difficult to classify people according to anatomical signs, since as a result of many processes, such as conquest, invasion, migration, and mass deportations that took place in world history, there was a mixture races. Nobody is able to give an accurate and detailed picture of racial and cultural characteristics with strictly defined and scientifically established concepts.
Three main races as recognized by anthropologists
Based on the characteristic appearance due to hereditary traits such as skin pigmentation, physique, hair color and type, shape of the head, face and nose, most anthropologists recognize the presence of three main groups:
Caucasoid - the most numerous race (about 40% of the world's population).
Location: Europe, North Africa, Middle East, Central and Central Asia, North India.
External signs: a wide range of skin, hair and eyes color from light shades in the northern to dark in the eastern, soft straight and wavy hair, medium build with a wide brush and foot, large protruding nose, narrow mouth with medium lip thickness.
The Mongoloid is a large Asian-American race.
Location: East Asia, Indonesia, Central Asia, Siberia, America.
External signs: yellowish skin color, straight black coarse hair, flattened face, protrusion of cheekbones, crease at the inner corner of the eyes, weak hair growth on the face and body.
Negroid - large equatorial (Negro-Australoid race).
Location: Sub-Saharan Africa.
External signs: Dark skin color, curly dark hair, wide nose, thick lips, prognathism (strong projection of the front of the skull forward).
Division of the main races into subgroups
Each of these groups can be divided into subgroups (within the main three races, there are about 30 small races).
Examples from the classification of the Caucasian race:
- Nordic (northern) race: tall, pink skin, athletic build, straight nose, well-developed chin, dolichocephalic skull, light hair and eye color.
- Falsky (Dalsky) race: tall, strong stocky physique, strong-willed chin, pink skin, hard wavy blond hair, light eyes (blue, gray or green), mesocephaly, large mouth and thin lips.
- Alpine race: medium height, fair skin, strong physique, broad face, brachycephaly, dark eyes and hair.
- Balkan-Caucasian race: growth is above average, strong physique, brachycephaly, dark straight or wavy hair, dark or mixed type of eyes.
- Mediterranean race: short stature, asthenic physique, dark hair, almond-shaped eye shape, dark skin, long narrow nose, meso / dolichokephaly.
- Characteristic features of the Dinaric race: tall, slender physique, shortened arms, aquiline nose, dark eyes and hair, brachycephaly, flat nape and protruding lower jaw.
Let's start with the story
The meaning of the words "Dinaric race" was first discovered at the beginning of the XX century by the French anthropologist I. Deniker. He coined the term for the small Caucasian race and was named after the Dinar Alps, supposedly the main place of residence. This term was used to describe the modern ethnic groups of Central and Southeast Europe.
Synonyms:
- Adriatic race.
- Dinarides.
- Adriatids.
There are suggestions that this race was formed in the Neolithic on the Balkan Peninsula as a result of evolution.
Kuhn's conclusions are interesting (Carlton Stevens Kuhn - an American anthropologist who conducted research in this area) about the Dinar race and its characteristic features, who believed that the race in question received its characteristics as a result of the Alpine-Mediterranean hybrid, inheriting brachycephaly from the Alpines.
What we pay first attention to
Of course, we make up the first impression of any person based on his appearance.
What do dinarids look like? Physical signs of the dinar race:
- brachycephaly or hyperbrachycephaly;
- high growth;
- leptomorphic physique;
- zygomatic width from very small to medium;
- face high, sharply profiled, triangular in shape (tapering to the bottom);
- the nose is narrow, long, protruding;
- a high percentage of convex forms of the nasal bridge;
- horizontal or lowered tip of the nose;
- thin lips;
- protruding chin;
- hazel or light brown eye color;
- black or dark brown hair color;
- profuse beard growth;
- abundant hair growth on the chest;
- a high percentage of a flat nape (plano-occipitalia).
In 1950, Kun wrote the following about the outward signs of the Dinaric race:
A typical dinar, as we have shown, partially still represents the result of age-related changes and artificial influence - his gaunt face and hawk nose usually appear in him at middle age; his broad head with a flattened nape in most cases is the result of the influence of a cradle. To a greater extent, his lean body is simply the body of a person who worked hard and ate little.
The spread of the dinar race
Most often, representatives of this race live in the Balkans (Balkan Slavs, Albanians, part of the Greeks, Western Bulgarians, etc.), Central (southern Germans, partly French) and Southeast (Romanians, Moldavians, southwestern Ukrainians) of Europe.
The regions of residence of Slovenes, Croats, Serbs, Montenegrins and Albanians constitute an area of substantial predominance of the Dinaric type, although other racial strains are also evident in these peoples.
In Ukraine, this species is widely represented in the areas of Kharkov, Poltava, Kiev, Chernihiv. In the Carpathians there is an Alpine-Dinar mixed population. The Alps became the starting point of the Dinar-Alpine "expansion" in northern Italy, central France and southern Germany. In some parts of Europe, there are signs of dinar immigration.
Mental qualities of the dinar race
Representatives of this race are characterized by brute force and genuineness, special reliability, a sense of honor and love for the house, courage and a certain self-awareness.
When looking at the place of residence and development of the Dinaric race, we see a majestic landscape surrounded by mighty mountains. It is not surprising that in such a place, people naturally absorbed reliability and a sense of honor, pride and courage, which they repeatedly proved in the battle for their native land.
The love of the motherland for the representatives of the Dinaric race is not only the words that they dedicate to their father’s house in poetry and prose, legends and traditions, but these are, first of all, the acts they performed when they took up arms and defended every patch of their native land when she was in danger. For example, the Dinar peasants of Tyrol bravely defended the Fatherland from Napoleon.
The mental properties of the dinar race are also expressed in the fact that they love and understand nature and have creative potential.
They are prudent and live in the present. The dinar courage flows through their veins, expressed in a real spiritual desire for conquest. These people are prone to sudden outbursts of anger, although in general they are kind-hearted, funny, and friendly nature.
Music
As mountain rivers carry their great song of nature through barriers and crevices, reflected by beautiful sounds and tints, so the heroes of our story are famous for their melody. They have a special relationship with music, as if it flows through their veins and, pouring out, gives the world inimitable creations that delight with its magnificence and grandeur.
Such great composers as Paganini, Chopin, Verdi, Berlioz, Haydn, Mozart, Weber, Liszt, Wagner, knew firsthand about the dinar blood, because it flowed through their veins.
All this, however, does not deny the presence of courage and courage, creative abilities and talents among representatives of other races. Currently, many scientists oppose the racial division of people and cite many arguments in favor of their conclusions, some of which we would like to share here.
Opponents of racial classification
They consider the concept of race to be unscientific and unfounded, and racial categories to be arbitrary designations. These judgments are based on the fact that the number of genes responsible for hereditary differences between traditional races is extremely small compared to the huge number of genes common to all people, regardless of the race to which they belong. And within the same race, there are as many genetic differences as there are between groups identified with different races.
Thus, they consider it inappropriate to use the term “race” when defining national, religious, geographical or ethnic groups, as well as identifying them with mental characteristics such as intelligence, personality and character.
All human groups belong to Homo Sapiens, and races have arisen as a result of mutation, selection and adaptation changes in human populations. The nature of genetic variation in humans indicates that there is a common evolution for all races and that racial differentiation occurred relatively late in the history of Homo Sapiens.
Despite this, there are fierce proponents of racial separation, who also have arguments in favor of their theories.
