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>In fact EU law claims "The European Union rejects theories which attempt to determine the existence of separate human races."[1], and anti-racism law talks abo
by tsotha 13y ago
>In fact EU law claims "The European Union rejects theories which attempt to determine the existence of separate human races."[1], and anti-racism law talks about "racial or ethnic origins"[1]
Very clever. "We'll deal with the subject by pretending it doesn't exist!"
- rmc 13y agoOh they don't pretend it doesn't exist. The link is, effectively an EU anti-racism law. It's just that it's not based on biological race, but on "racial or ethnic origin".
- tsotha 13y agoI can see ethnic origin not being biological, but how can racial origin and biological race be different things?
- jordanb 13y agoOfficial racial identification in America is based on self-identification. The data from these maps came from people filling out a form saying what race they are. On modern census forms, people are allowed to choose multiple races, and the same holds for ethnic origin. Some of the comments here seem to suggest that these maps come from measuring craniums and all that. Fortunately that's one horror that didn't survive the boat trip across the ocean.
- rmc 13y agoSelf-identification is mostly the way it's done in Europe as well.
- rowanseymour 13y agoFortunately that's one horror that didn't survive the boat trip across the ocean. Actaully, Phrenology enjoyed brief but widespread popularity in the US: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrenology#United_States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrenology#United_States
- eru 13y agoOh, it did survice the boat trip (see e.g. paper bag parties). It only died overseas, not during transit, if at all.