Wow, do people simply translate their dating websites and expect to get away with it? American ethnicity categories don't make much sense even in the US. I hea

Wow, do people simply translate their dating websites and expect to get away with it? American ethnicity categories don't make much sense even in the US. I hear that all Brazilians are considered "hispanic" there, even though Brazilians don't speak Spanish and are a linear combination of (native) Indian, European, African black, Arab and East Asian. Well, of course official Brazilian categories don't cover all of this. They are: "white", "brown", "black", "indian", "yellow". Obama is "brown", by the way. Apart from ethnicity, lots of things have to change when localizing a dating website. For instance, in Japan the ethnicity field is mostly irrelevant. Japanese websites simply assume everyone is Japanese. If you're doing a website for Japanese and foreigners, you would use "nationality" instead. For foreigners X foreigners, you'd probably need separate websites for each group anyway. On the other hand, in the Japanese Yahoo dating site there are fields for "my income" and "desired partner's income". Of course, that wouldn't translate well in many parts of the world.