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Race Or Ancestry' Race or Ancestry' Is there really an argument as to whether or not race should be a decisive factor in the identification of an individual' The fact of the matter is that race can still be used as an identifying factor today in narrowing down the missing. The majority of the population can still be classified into one of the major categories of what is termed as “races”. This paper will include arguments against identifying categorizing individuals into racial categories based on biological assessment, teaching race identification, and why forensic anthropologists are so good at identify the unknown. Why are people classified into racial categories instead of ancestry categories' The majority of the worlds people can be separated into four major “race” groups which include white, black, Asian and American Indian. People of white ancestry can be of German descent, Irish descent, or even of unmixed Spanish blood. The Asian ancestry is much larger than white, including individuals from Polynesia, Hawaii and Chinese descent. What about those individuals that are mixed white and black but consider themselves as black' In a forensic case, this person remains could be misidentified as white because of overwhelming race, races, ancestry, identifying, white, individuals, different, form, forensic, very, persons, person, people, identification, categories, black, anthropologists, traits, remains, racial, missing, include, human, good, even, descent, cranial, asian, article, unmixed, tool, terms, term, teaching, skeleton