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Anecdote: Had a (caucasian) friend who spent a four-month co-op term as a student in India, and when they came back they also had to insist to the local Indian
by cbhl 8y ago
Anecdote: Had a (caucasian) friend who spent a four-month co-op term as a student in India, and when they came back they also had to insist to the local Indian restaurants "yes, I want it extra spicy, like you would serve to an Indian person".
(Like, I realize this is frustrating, but how is the waiter going to know -- from your appearance -- that you spent four months eating Indian food in India?)
- magic_beans 8y agoSeveral of my colleagues find buffalo wing sauce to be unbearably spicy... Most white people in the US aren’t as adventurous as those on HN.
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- faragon 8y agoIndians are caucasian, too.
- YeGoblynQueenne 8y agoMore to the point, "caucasian" is an obsolete and ill-defined term that was interpreted in various ways throughout its history: The Caucasian race (also Caucasoid[1] or Europid)[2] is a grouping of human beings historically regarded as a biological taxon, which, depending on which of the historical race classifications used, have usually included some or all of the ancient and modern populations of Europe, Western Asia, Central Asia, South Asia, North Africa, and the Horn of Africa.[3] Since the second half of the 20th century, physical anthropologists have moved away from a typological understanding of human biological diversity towards a genomic and population-based perspective, and have tended to understand race as a social classification of humans based on phenotype and ancestry as well as cultural factors, as the concept is also understood in the social sciences.[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasian_race https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasian_race
- faragon 8y agoSure, I forgot the quotes, thank you. The whole "race" thing is ridiculous, in my opinion.
- ThomasRedstone 8y agoIs white not an acceptable term? In Britain, on government forms that's the term used.