South Asian, definitely, and I wonder if your Black/African would be considered appropriate for people of Arabic descent from North Africa, or, say, people of Beduin ancestry?
From what I can tell, Sardinian and North African are apparently put with Arab/Middle-Eastern (if they're not just lumped, oddly, into a subset of Caucasian). Maybe I should expand the titles to include more details about who'd be included, like your example -- except that then you get into respondents getting confused/angry that their sub-group is not included, as though this means they're being excluded entirely. Some people take "no mention" to mean "it's obvious I belong in this group so there's no need to explain" and some take it to mean "if you outlined these examples then you need to outline every single example or else you're dismissing/erasing me". Which I get, but it really makes it hard to make anything concise, and I already have a problem with excessive wordiness.
As for the Rom, wow. Hmm. I seem to recall they're usually counted as one of the sub-types of Caucasian... but that's also a group I'd count as a type of indigenous/marginalized, in that regardless of where they are (for the most part), they're almost always treated as a minority group with all the indignities that contains.
I guess the TL;DR is: cripes, I have only the faintest of notions.
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Date: 14 May 2010 09:02 pm (UTC)From what I can tell, Sardinian and North African are apparently put with Arab/Middle-Eastern (if they're not just lumped, oddly, into a subset of Caucasian). Maybe I should expand the titles to include more details about who'd be included, like your example -- except that then you get into respondents getting confused/angry that their sub-group is not included, as though this means they're being excluded entirely. Some people take "no mention" to mean "it's obvious I belong in this group so there's no need to explain" and some take it to mean "if you outlined these examples then you need to outline every single example or else you're dismissing/erasing me". Which I get, but it really makes it hard to make anything concise, and I already have a problem with excessive wordiness.
As for the Rom, wow. Hmm. I seem to recall they're usually counted as one of the sub-types of Caucasian... but that's also a group I'd count as a type of indigenous/marginalized, in that regardless of where they are (for the most part), they're almost always treated as a minority group with all the indignities that contains.
I guess the TL;DR is: cripes, I have only the faintest of notions.