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DeviantlyD -> RE: Should CM have a "Black" ethnicity category? (9/4/2011 3:01:48 AM)
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ORIGINAL: LiveByYourNature
I think CM, despite how unpolitically correct it sounds, should have Caucasian, Negroid, Caucasoid, Mixed; or, break it down like this "Anglo-Saxon, Celtic, Hispanic, Latino, Asian, Japanese (I have yet to meet a Japanese person who wanted to be called Asian. It could happen, but, it hasn't yet), American Indian, Alaskan Native (different ethnicity than American Indian and that should be recognized), or, maybe even just list every frigging thing like Aleut, Athabascan, Tlingit, Mauri, Irish Catholic, Irish Protestant, Irish doesn't give a frig, Irish-American, and, let you choose every single one that applies. So, I'd be "Irish, doesn't give a frig, Cherokee, Chinese, American, Alaskan". However, that would be needlessly complicated and I suspect many people would stop having any ethnicity altogether.
Hopefully at least some of you understood there was joking involved up there. Yes? (sigh).
The fact is, they don't totally address all ethnicities, and African-American certainly does not cover every single person of relatively that range of skin tones and heritages, but, there is the fact that most people know that if someone has a photo of themselves looking rather dark of complexion, saying they are from England, and, claiming to be African-American, that what they really mean is, probably, that they are Negroid. Unless they have a profile that also says " I am American, but in London", for instance. And, there is the fact that there is the category of "mixed" and the category of "other" which covers a lot.
All of which boils down to "No." Why? Because, it gets needlessly complicated. Caucasian is the only thing on there that has a scientific classification and everything else is a generalized description. I'm not complaining that, as a white person, I was singled out to stand alone, while other people get the safety of joining with many others who fall into that broad category with them, am I? So, why should the black people. No one asked me if I was white or wanted to be classified as white, like they were some mid-1980's South African government official, did they? If I can't get a color designation and I have to either claim to be mixed, thereby making an inordinate number of people assume I am half black for some reason (must be my blue eyes?) or lie and say I'm Caucasian, which I am not, but I do resemble, then, why shouldn't other people have to choose mixed, which most people are, or African-American, which they are not but which they resemble, same as I have to do?
"Caucasian is the only thing on there that has a scientific classification"? In whose world? And using the word Negroid? You don't understand much. It may be an anthropological term, but it has no place here.
Quite frankly I'm somewhat relieved to have a different opinion than someone like yourself with over 20 profiles on Collarme. [:D]
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