How diverse are MFK Members???

[Otolith]

<French, Irish, Scot and Choctaw.

 

[Scorponok]

You're confusing several different things here. "Hispanic" and "Latino" are ethnic, not racial, terms. Hispanics can be of any race, as long as they identify with Spanish-derived culture. Latinos are usually considered New World Hispanics. In both cases they are cultural identifications, not racial ones. There are black Latinos, white Latinos, "Amerind" Latinos, even Asian Latinos.

As long as we are being politically correct with our racial classification schemes, "Eskimo" is considered an improper and denigrating term. Inuit and Yupik are the more correct terms for the two subgroups. They are not Amerinds.

If you insist on Caucasian and Amerind, do you also insist on Negro, Mongoloid, etc?

Yes, many American blacks have white blood, and probably more whites than are aware of it have black blood. But...does it matter? Race is more a matter of self-identification than anything. It's not as though there was some point in time when "pure" races existed, that have since intermingled in some people's lineages and not in others; everyone's a mutt.

*edit* Kolossus beat me to that last point.

Of course I know hispanis/latinos are not a race. That's why they are categorized either as amerind, bi-racial, or other.

Anyone with more than 2 racial linerage such as tri-racial or more are called other or multi-racial.

Asian is used in a broader term which includes subraces of all asia continent and region such as indians and southeast asians of tibet, nepal, etc. Mongoroids is mainly to describe eastern asians.

Blacks should be called Negroids but it has become a derogatory term during the slave era. The term is pretty much interchangable.

Yapik is not a race, but a term to describe indigenous people of the northern part of america continent. So they are amerinds.

 

[SnaKeheAdSrAwSomE]

I'm 12.5 percent Chinese, and the rest is full on pinoy

 

[Kolossus]

Let's keep this light for the sake of all of us who are not ethnicity scholars. There are a variety of points that could be argued but that is not the intention of this thread. We are celebrating diversity!

 

[Noto]

This is the internet- arguing is what it's for!

I'll quit, though.

 

[jclyde13]

I'm Indiwhack (white/black/American Indian). I'm mostly just white and black, but there's Native American somewhere in my dad's side of the family.

 

[Eläköön]

i'm Armenian 3/4 chinese 1/4 =)

 

[Ash]

uhm I only know my birth mom's side which is greek, native american and french. Dads side is unknown.

So I call my self Ashin =]

 

[haynchinook334]

Hawaiian/Pinoy

Membah dis!!!

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[fishman112]

I'm unicorn in ethnicity.