How politically correct are YOU?!

Co
Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:26:15 +0000

The confusion is because the US likes to be stupid when it comes to racial categories.

African American has a very warped definition here in the US, just like Hispanic. An African American can be of any race (just be a White kid with German parents born in Nigeria and then move to the US and get citizenship - African American), however by US definition to be African American you have to be black skinned. Some people from Spain and Portugal or with heritage there come here to the US and decide to call themself Hispanic, which they may be so, but not by the US’s definition. They are White.

Or Asian. Asian has several different races. I refuse to believe that the dark skinned Indians are the same race as the light skinned Chinese or the many brown south east Asians.

IMO, I think Brazil has it right:

The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) classifies the Brazilian population in five categories: white, black, pardo (brown), yellow or Indigenous, based on skin color.

White (49.9% of the population):[2] usually a Brazilian of full or predominant European ancestry or other White ancestry (such as Arab Brazilian, Jewish) who considers himself or herself to be White.
Pardo or Brown (43.2%):[2] usually a Multiracial Brazilian of brown skin color and mixed-race features who considers himself or herself to be “Pardo”.
Black (6.3%):[2] usually a dark-skinned Brazilian of Black African ancestry who considers himself or herself to be Black.
Yellow: (0.5%) usually a Brazilian of East Asian descent, mostly Japanese.
Indigenous (0.4%):[3] usually a Brazilian of full or predominant Amerindian ancestry who considers himself or herself to be Amerindian.