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Valid point. Weird in its own way. White is a skin tone, Asian is a geographic location. Defending either definition would be an exercise in absurdity and I'm
by nataz 6y ago
Valid point.
Weird in its own way. White is a skin tone, Asian is a geographic location.
Defending either definition would be an exercise in absurdity and I'm not even going to try.
- eli_gottlieb 6y ago>Weird in its own way. White is a skin tone, Asian is a geographic location. Asian is also a skin tone: the Middle East is in Asia, but counts as White for the US Census.
- white-flame 6y agoYep. All of it is just emergent shorthand, and none of it makes literal sense. :) If we had some specifically correct terminology, it would likely be quite a mouthful, either including genetic terminology or some mix of geography and time period, but both of those would probably still be insufficient. Race basically doesn't really exist in any clean delineation.