One plea, if these questions end up manifesting outside of thought experiment, consider that it should be a "check all that apply" rather than "pick the one that best fits".
Well, seeing how I live with someone whose ancestry is Hungarian, German, Filipino (and Spanish by way of the Philippines at that) -- oh, and Jewish -- I was going to go with a "check ANY that apply". I don't think they've created a best fit for CP yet, even if most people would assume his blue eyes make him automatically Caucasian. For that matter, I've known too many people who are technically (or predominantly) Caucasian but are at least one-quarter Native American, and even more than that who might be but don't know because of the US' policy (through the, hrm, 20s? later?) of taking Native children away from their parents and giving them to Proper White Families to adopt.
The map is apparently a UN map, but I think it needs some fussing -- I was thinking that the northern half of Canada, Iceland, and Greenland would be more accurate as "Arctic" even if they are all technically part of the North American techtonic plate or whatever it is that forms continents. I get the impression the map is an attempt to break continental regions into geographical sub-regions, which works on a, well, geographical basis but not so good on a people basis.
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Date: 14 May 2010 10:28 pm (UTC)Well, seeing how I live with someone whose ancestry is Hungarian, German, Filipino (and Spanish by way of the Philippines at that) -- oh, and Jewish -- I was going to go with a "check ANY that apply". I don't think they've created a best fit for CP yet, even if most people would assume his blue eyes make him automatically Caucasian. For that matter, I've known too many people who are technically (or predominantly) Caucasian but are at least one-quarter Native American, and even more than that who might be but don't know because of the US' policy (through the, hrm, 20s? later?) of taking Native children away from their parents and giving them to Proper White Families to adopt.
The map is apparently a UN map, but I think it needs some fussing -- I was thinking that the northern half of Canada, Iceland, and Greenland would be more accurate as "Arctic" even if they are all technically part of the North American techtonic plate or whatever it is that forms continents. I get the impression the map is an attempt to break continental regions into geographical sub-regions, which works on a, well, geographical basis but not so good on a people basis.