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To make it worse these nutz are saying Obama will support Iran because he is Arab. I tell them Iranians are Persians, but it just bounces off their thick skulls.
edward said:To make it worse these nutz are saying Obama will support Iran because he is Arab. I tell them Iranians are Persians, but it just bounces off their thick skulls.
No, race is different from ethnic groups. Races are caucasian (white), black and Asian, with sub-classifications. It's more biological classification. The US Census recognizes four basic racial groups, as they consider American natives and Eskimos as a racial class. Correction, they also added Hawaiian/Pacific Islander and "some other race", for people that are mixed and not sure what they are. Races really are losing their distinctions.mgb_phys said:Isn't a race an ethnic group?
Yes it has nothing to do with the Americna president, but if you can't nitt pick about terminology on PF what can you do :-)
Cyrus said:What are these peoples level of education? H.S. diploma/GED?
edward said:To make it worse these nutz are saying Obama will support Iran because he is Arab. I tell them Iranians are Persians, but it just bounces off their thick skulls.
WarPhalange said:I really wish Obama's victory speech on election night had started with "Yes, I am a secret Muslim."
Right now I am told by people I know living in the South that there are those who think Obama will force abortions, ban Christianity, and is literally the Anti-Christ.
It's like living in a Mel Brooks movie.
I think that's the difference between the biological defn of a race, to be equivalent to a breed in dogs, ie. same species but different physical characterstics and the anthropological defn of a shared origin + culture.Evo said:No, race is different from ethnic groups. Races are caucasian (white), black and Asian, with sub-classifications.
Evo said:Races are caucasian (white), black and Asian, with sub-classifications.
It's more biological classification. The US Census recognizes four basic racial groups, as they consider American natives and Eskimos as a racial class. Correction, they also added Hawaiian/Pacific Islander and "some other race", for people that are mixed and not sure what they are. Races really are losing their distinctions.
Hispanic for example is not a race, it's an ethnic group, they are white as a race.
WarPhalange said:I really wish Obama's victory speech on election night had started with "Yes, I am a secret Muslim."
Right now I am told by people I know living in the South that there are those who think Obama will force abortions, ban Christianity, and is literally the Anti-Christ.
It's like living in a Mel Brooks movie.