<p>Hispanic is the only kicker. It’s technically defined as anyone speaking Spanish–so someone from Spain would be considered Hispanic.
But most people use Hispanic when they mean Latino. </p>
<p>Which is why a lot of forms will say “white/non-Hispanic” since a white person speaking Spanish could be considered as Hispanic by some.
Depends who you ask, I suppose.</p>
<p>^You’re right, I was thinking of Latino. Actually, I never knew that before, I always thought they were the same thing.</p>
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<p>They probably would have been considered white by the US government. If they looked white, they were probably Arab, and Arabs are Caucasians under US definitions.</p>
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Hispanic isn’t only not “really” a race, it’s not at all a race. It’s an ethnicity.</p>
<p>“Hispanic isn’t only not “really” a race, it’s not at all a race. It’s an ethnicity.”</p>
<p>By not really a race, I meant not a race. I tend to add words like “really” where they don’t change meaning to allow some flexibility. Even so, I did change that line in my post.</p>
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<p>This distinction is so annoying. I say I’m Hispanic and people look at me like I’m crazy. I’m definitely white with blue eyes and light brown hair, with an Irish name. But I’m Hispanic by heritage. People have flat-out accused me of lying to get AA advantage. The irony is whenever I’m asked for race I always put Other-Human. It’s not my fault that people don’t know Hispanic is different from Latino -.-</p>
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<p>There is only one human race. Period.</p>
<p>“There is only one human race. Period.”</p>
<p>Are you trying to imply that the others aren’t really human? :p</p>
<p>And before someone starts getting all ****y, it’s a joke. </p>
<p>Anyway, do you agree that there are certain groups of people who share similar inherited characteristics which come from different regions of the Earth? If you do, we define these different groups as a race.</p>
<p>If you don’t… I guess I don’t know enough about biology to argue the point.</p>
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<p>Don’t you think you’re being quite a bit dramatic? Considering that “race” is used herein as not a word describing biological differences but rather one describing a social construct, by which meaning there is more than one race, it’s rather overly restrictive to make the statement you have.</p>
<p>^^ Hardy har :p. </p>
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<p>I agree that we CALL them races. They are not REALLY races. Show me something biologically that shows we are different races. The term race was used by racist European anthropologists in the 17th, 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries to define people based on physical characteristics. It was a way for them to keep non-white people beneath them. “Race” is CULTURAL not biological, which means I could no nothing about biology and still argue with you.</p>
<p>@Mill- How am I being dramatic? There is only one human race. Period. That is biologically proven. We interchange ethnicity and race and that is wrong.</p>
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I’m not arguing this. I don’t care to argue this. It’s stupid and I’m done now.</p>
<p>“I agree that we CALL them races. They are not REALLY races.”</p>
<p>That doesn’t make sense. If that’s what we’ve defined as races, that’s what races are. </p>
<p>"The term race was used by racist European anthropologists "</p>
<p>So to be not racist we should use a word other than race to describe exactly what we call a race? I don’t see the point.</p>
<p>““Race” is CULTURAL not biological”</p>
<p>So culture is genetically inherited and biology isn’t?</p>
<p>^ The term “race” and our definition of “races” is cultural. That is what I meant. </p>
<p>Clarifying, not arguing. Now I am really done here.</p>
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<p>Because multiple races do exist as a social construct. Ignoring that they are being discussed in that manner here to make a somewhat tangential point is dramatic.</p>
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<p>I took an honors anthropology seminar and it’s not as decided as you say, the social anthropologists like to say it’s a construct while the biological ones say it’s physical and useful for forensics since you can tell what race a corpse was by their bone structure.</p>
<p>We wrote a paper and I sided with the hard scientists on that one.</p>
<p>hi QuatumArbiter!!! nice new name.</p>
<p>^Lulz, I thought you and QA were friends.</p>
<p>^ha ha. i have seen so many of his threads. they all sound like an exercise in recursion. interesting character indeed.</p>
<p>There’s something about an attractive, intelligent black man that just gets me. Also, attractive Indians. Other races are okay too, but these two especially. But note: attractive. lol</p>
<p>^Haha. What’s your ethnicity?</p>
<p>I’m Asian haha</p>
<p>Admitting that was probably a bad idea.</p>
<p>Black men are very attractive. They are very suave and have good muscles. The problem is that there aren’t many intelligent ones. Asian men on the other hand, for the most part, are not great looking, and don’t have strong muscles. They are also shorter on average. However, there are a lot of intelligent ones!</p>