The Study of Racialism

I think this is a good example, which demonstrates how silly racial classifications can be. I cannot say for sure, I do not think middle easterners would be considered white in the UK. I have Syrian a ...

I find this thread very interesting. I live in the UK. I am from a family who migrated from the Caribbean to America, UK and Canada. I do not think any of these countries could be described as raciall ...

It giving me problems. My computer is less than a year old. Moreover, I wouldn't want to change any of my settings.

I think they look quite similar.

Self-absorbed? Hmm...okay. Laughing

No one who actually takes the time to know me could ever accuse me of that.

I never said she was jealous of me. Please read my post carefully. ...

I have visted Cuba. There appears to be many people with white, mixed and black phenotypes. In addition, I saw some individuals with East Asian appearance.

America is an immigrant country and many Americans I come across Identify them self as an American and with the mother land. For example, Italian American, Irish American, German American and many mor ...

tpianoplayer111,

I did not respond to this post, when I initially read this post. When I read this post, I felt you were being slight self-asborbed. I do not mean this in a nasty way. If I could ph ...

I think has Asian features but he looks mixed with white to me.

His name is , he's 100% Korean.

Nope, I find it interesting that people thnk that "hot" Asians are mixed with white. ...

Mixed Asian,

I am wondering which Asian groups you are referring to? American Asians, Asians from Asia?
In my experience with East Asian is they do not accept Eurasian as Asian. I agree many East ...

I think has Asian features but he looks mixed with white to me.

I think it is possible for this person not to have any African ancestry. For example, many people will assume my friend has African ancestry but she doesn't as she is mixed with very dark skinned Indi ...

I personally think the entire Caribbean should be grouped together in the census. There may be small division such the French Caribbean, Spanish Caribbean and English Caribbean but geographically it i ...

Please join the movement to get all non-Hispanic Caribbean-Americans their own self identifying category on the US Census form. We need to stand up and be counted. Join the movement at Welcome to Cari ...

My own theory is that Indian do not want to be associated with being black and out of all the racial group, I think they are likely to be called black or mistaken to be black.

Fsweet, I have looked on the US census Bureu website. According to the website these are the racial definitions which are used in America:

http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/meta/long_68172.htm

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It is likely Americans, Australians, Canadians and New Zealanders who are predominantly of European descent are likely to be referred to as White. Similarly, those who are predominantly of African des ...

I do not think the fact Spain is in Europe factors whether Puerto Ricans are perceived as white because Puerto Rica is not in Spain.
Is it then safe to assume that you consider neither Canadians nor ...

in my little experience of white Americans, I have never seen or heard them refer to those from non-European background as white.
If you are referring to Asians, I recommend James W. Loewen, The Miss ...

When I read thread like this, I am always baffled. I am not an American and I do not reside in America therefore, I cannot fully comprehend issues like these. The definition of white people is for peo ...