Define Caucasian. Germans, Irish, Italians and more at one time were considered non-white in America. (I still hold a grudge against the Irish, but that's just to annoy Timiddeer)
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I'm 3/8 German and 3/8 Irish, or so Mom calculated, and I've been writing Caucasian on every form where I wanted them to know. To a large extent, such terminology is plastic and can mean many things, as you imply.
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I was only implying that I agree with you. What I have a problem with is race. There is only one and the rest are merely about ethnicity.
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We agree a lot. Separated at birth? Or just well edumacated? ( :
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I think I get some of mine from travel. Born west coast, grew up gulf coast, now live east coast. Meet lots of people that way.
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Oops. 'maybe'
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Those Irish and racist RH negative blood, they just can’t get along with anything but their own lol jk
Female friend had to start taking shots dec-feb so body wouldn’t reject her bfs blood type. Somehow she and her doctor didn’t know until it was to late
Go back far enough and there are no words to even describe race/ethnicity, and thus it shouldn't matter. I dont understand why some people elevate one group or another because of something we have no bearing on when coming into this world. I didnt choose my ethnicity, I just made the most of my life as it was given to me. Race/ethnicity only describes a person, it doesn't define a person.
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Certainly it can originate in pride of culture mixed with the inevitable skirmishes of daily life that lead to taking sides and then rivalries and feuds and then wars. So maybe racism is inevitable at our current state of evolution and we'll just have to limit its impact as well as we can.
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This paragraph is referring to racism. I cut out a sentence ) :
I mean, yeah, in that there wasn't a horrifying white missing link that evolved apart from brown missing links. Unless you count the neanderthals and the fact that they didn't bang the ancestors of some non-Asian non-European people.
My sister's DNA results was just a picture of Antarctica during a blizzard though. Not that their old bones look any different.