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> Racial identity is a social, legal, and political construct that consists of our own perceptions of our race, and how other people see us. This seems a prett
by enriquto 5y ago
> Racial identity is a social, legal, and political construct that consists of our own perceptions of our race, and how other people see us.
This seems a pretty US-centric conception. I for one wouldn't know how to assign a "racial identity" to myself, and most of my acquitances would surely say the same thing. I doubt that this study holds much meaning outside the USA.
Now if it was about genetic ancestry it would make some sense (and not really be surprising). But if it is about "self-reported identity" I guess it's only finding the correlation of that with actual genetically transmitted features.
- docdeek 5y ago> This seems a pretty US-centric conception. I for one wouldn't know how to assign a "racial identity" to myself, and most of my acquitances would surely say the same thing. I doubt that this study holds much meaning outside the USA. I’m outside of the US (Australian born, resident in Europe for many years) and I wouldn’t find this difficult. If asked, I would assign myself a racial identity of white/European/caucasian. If someone else was asked what race I was, they’d probably say about the same. I don’t think that my race is an important part of my identity, mind you, but it is ‘real’ in that it impacts how I am treated by others (that is, it has social consequences).
- cpu_qwerty 5y agoWhite Europeans are not Caucasian, because they are not from the Caucasus. There are actual Caucasians so stop abusing that term which was incorrectly applied to Europeans and others based on some outdated pseudoscience. And even if you do use it in the absurd old "Caucasoid" sense, it includes many people like Middle Easterners, Indians etc.