What and who is “white” now?

This just shows how silly and unfounded the whole notion of “race” is. It was only through education that I realized none of it mattered.

The things that affect humans the most are cultural, financial, health-based, and educational.

It’s gonna take awhile before any of this stuff goes away. We’re basically a stepping stone in a larger human evolution. I’m glad we’ve made so much progress but we basically just stepped out of the cave.

I’m not American, I’m a human, I’m a tech-lover and a videogamer, and I’d like to ride bikes more as well. I had no consent in being born here, but I wasn’t raised in money so I’m trapped here. I should’ve solidified a goal earlier in life to leave America but it never happened unfortunately.

Well you might check in ascending order the preferred targets of the country’s disjointed police departments noted for their extreme variabilities in degrees of competence.

Anyone who wishes to be “white” can be “white” if they want. Or any other color. I consider myself “white” but am 1/16 Cherokee. What color is that?

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Now a days most of us are likely mutts.
I’m 10% El Salvador Indian, 4% Asian and 86% German. My skin color is very light.
There’s only one race, The human race.
We are all human. Not a color.

If you look at historical documents from 100 years ago, they didn’t consider Italians to be white.

My father is 100% Mexican and I’m whiter than most people I know.

Anyone who is not Black/African-American, American Indian/Alaskan Native, Asian, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander is white.

@jca2 Mexicans who are not white are Native Mexicans, meaning, Indians. The Spaniards who settled Mexico were white so not all Mexicans are brown people of color.

@kritiper: I am fully aware of that.

Good question. I’m of Hispanic descent but I have light skin and blue eyes. Does that make me a “person of color” or “brown” (as people tend to speak of all Hispanics)? I don’t have a good answer.

Well, I did the ancestry.com thing and you have never seen a more bland result in your life. Dutch, English and Scottish. My kids (who are darker and brown eyed because they have an infusion of Indonesian thanks to their Dad) used to tell me I glowed in the dark! “You are a beacon in da night Mom!”

People who identify themselves as Caucasian. There is no test.

Relatively dark-skinned persons from India, Hungary, the Middle East, Finland / Lappland, are sometimes considered Caucasian and therefore ‘white.’

I identify white as the caucasian, Anglo-Saxon, Nordic, often politically liberal types—which includes mostly people of European decent.