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Latino is NOT a race. Please stop including it. Neither is Asian. Caucasian describes the region around the Caucasus Mountains in Eastern Europe/Central Asia.
Race is a farce: it is a socially constructed notion based on phenotypes.
Hence the problem with "white", "black". Asian doesn't make sense either as it describes a continent (of or being from). So depending on whose standards and which map, Israelis, Iranians are Asians too. I think "black" is completetly silly. Does "black power" include Sri Lankans? Shit, I am blacker than Condi Rice and Cloin Powell put together so does that make me black?
Heavy D is paler than some Irish I know, is he white?
Is Sammy Sosa black or Latino?
Russians are Asian too (depending on whom you ask, they mostly identified with Europeans to "upgrade".
The traditional race chart: negroid, caucasoid, mongoloid, and australoid is no longer the norm.
The next myth to dismiss: ethnicity...
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