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> Or how can humans, most of the time, tell someone's race.. How can you tell someone's race without a formal taxonomy or classification? Different people hold
by 1659447091 2y ago
> Or how can humans, most of the time, tell someone's race..
How can you tell someone's race without a formal taxonomy or classification? Different people hold differing options on what classifies people into races based on nothing more than their own cultural stereotyping biases. For example, some American's calling anyone with dark skin African-American even if that person has no ties too, nor has ever in their life been to America.
- trilbyglens 2y agoThis is just stupidity in the american population though.
- 1659447091 2y agoAmericans are not the only ones that "stupidly" stereotype other's into boxes they don't necessarily belong to based on their own person and cultural experience. Since Native Americans were populated by East/SE/Asians and Pacific Islanders why are they not "Asian"? Why do Indians in some parts of the world get grouped Asian but in others are Indian only? Which "race" does that "make" them? Why is Hispanic as race? How does one being a native Spanish speaker make a race? And why are Russian's "white" and not Asian? even when quite a few that have white pigmented skin, clearly have features that other people with slightly different tinted skin get grouped into with Asian? What exactly defines race? or what white is? Because in the US, and I use the US because it is one of the few places with a long history of a mixing cultures and nationalities from around the world, there was the One Drop Rule[0]; people who produce less melanin but have a family ancestry consisting of one or more darker skinned people, were not white by the One Drop standard. Even though if anyone looked at them that is what they would be grouped as today by most cultural stereotyping biases. So what is their race? [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-drop_rule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-drop_rule