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I don't know about India, but races/racial terms like "white" are culturally defined. E.g. apparently Americans (sometimes?) refer to Pacific Islanders as "blac

• yummypaint 4y ago
  It's all absurd. There is no biological basis for any of it. The concept of "whiteness" was invented to justify enslaving "non-white" people for profit. Full stop. Who is considered white has changed over time, mostly by slow expansion as groups seek to gain the priviledges associated with it. Again there is a broad wealth of literature about this written from all kinds of perspectives from the time when slavery was formally the law of the land until today. It's quite disappointing that some people feel so threatened by the historical record and thereby deny themselves the opportunity to learn.
  • cuteboy19 4y ago
    >Who is considered white has changed over time, mostly by slow expansion as groups seek Ah so since a few people became white, we can extrapolate that to say that anyone can become white. > broad wealth of literature I have no interest in reading pseudoscience, let alone indoctrinate myself with this ideology. There are no falsifiable predictions here, all these people do is redefine words to suit whatever political ideology is in vogue.