Postby Cumar-Labasuul » Thu Jan 31, 2013 9:53 am
Thug, I think race is a sensitive issue because it was europeans who designed these categories. White and black etc are pretty vague terms because who is it that someone from ireland and someone from the baltics share the same classification. Look at these examples:
WHITE
Basically everyone from europe or european ancestry = Celts; Nords; gallics; germanics; slavs; iberians; romanians etc
BLACK
Basically sub-saharan africa + aborigines/papua new guineans - far too vast for people to be categorized together
ASIAN
By far the most stupidest category - asian is a native of the continent, where you have arabs, iranian, indians, chinese, mongols, indonesians. Do you mean to tell me all these people are under the same category.
NATIVE AMERICANS
Basically everyone from north central and southern america - very stupid because these people were not related - you have the mayans, the azteca people, the incas of peru, the amazonas, the varies northern tribes like lakota, algonquin, apache, the inuits etc
Basically the world is too large to categorise people into so few groups. I think that people should be classified into smaller regional groups e.g. us somalis are related to those tribes that live around us therefore cushitics.
In this case those interviewed in the video should have replied we don't know because our ancestors are a mix of iberian spanish and aztecs/mayans so now they are a new classification.