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Everybody gets ethnicity wrong. There's no such thing. It, like many other things, is culturally determined-- but (and this is a big but) it is almost always
by michael_dorfman 17y ago
Everybody gets ethnicity wrong. There's no such thing.
It, like many other things, is culturally determined-- but (and this is a big but) it is almost always contentious between cultures, and often within cultures.
Not only is there no good universal set of ethnic labels that will satisfy everybody, there's likely no set of local labels that will satisfy everybody in a given area.
I can't think of too many good reasons to attempt to collect "ethnicity" in a web form, but if I were going to, I'd make it a text field, and let people enter whatever the hell they want to.
- barrkel 17y agoI'm not sure you read the post. The post makes the same points you do, but in a different way; and it answers your question as to why you would want to collect "ethnicity".
- defen 17y agoBy the same argument, one could claim that color does not exist - it exists on a continuum, different people will call the same color different things, etc.