Shel For The PublicThis is a new one. Listening things like genderqueer and bigender but also having "transgender" and "transexual" as independent specific genders. https://cybre.space/media/2aEWxCULj5Dxq94kxCo
This site also frames racial demographics as ethnicity which are two different things so it wants me to write in "My ethnicity is white" which sounds VERY wrong my *ethnicity* isn't white my *ethnicity* is ashkenazi; my *race* on the census is "White/European/Middle Easterner" and we know that those broad "race" categories aren't ethnicity because they're *so* broad like nobody is "ethnically a middle easterner" like are you arab, kurdish, jewish, samaritan, turkish, armenian, assyrian....
usually on things like the census "ethnicity" just asks if you're latinx which is already a hugely broad umbrella it's absurd to say that "white" is an ethnic group. "European-American Mutt" maybe is. but not broadly speaking like what about Greeks
Minsc@shel My skin colour is white. My ethnicity or race is "Whatever, I don't think about it and is not important (other than for those who want to place a label).".
@Minsc yeah that’s you. The dominant group who doesn’t think about it because your culture is the dominant one so it feels default, normal, like nothing. Asking Jewish and Arab people to identify as “ethnically white” is weird and uncomfortable it’s way different from the census category being “European/White/Middle Easterner” since that’s not asking about ethnicity
@shel I do get your beef with race and ethnicity being classified as the same thing. To call myself "ethnically white" would be weird, though neither comfortable or uncomfortable. For race I guess I'd be called caucasian. The race classification makes sense as it carries certain physical characteristics. What I wouldn't call my race is "Canadian". I guess my ethnic group would be Canadian, though that's quite broad. Even "English Canadian" is quite broad.
@Minsc eee there's a lot of loaded stuff going on that i don't have the time to fully unpack. Here's an article on the history of the idea of a "caucasian race" https://www.good.is/articles/the-last-country-to-still-use-the-term-caucasian
also, the physical differences among humans fall far less along where we've drawn the racial lines than you might think.
@shel Obviously I draw more from the seemingly traditional use of the word caucasian in North America. I'd typically only use it when having to check a box. As for the meaning of the word, I'm not surprised it has gone through a transformation over time.
As for loaded stuff, yep, there's loaded stuff. Always is, always will.
@Minsc ^^;; that IS the traditional use of the word in NA.
Hyper-Cole@shel At least they are trying?
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