Re:Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants
by nataz on Friday August 14, 2020 @09:40AM
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Valid point.
Weird in its own way. White is a skin tone, Asian is a geographic location.
Defending either definition would be an exercise in absurdity and I'm not even going to try.
Re:Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants
by white-flame on Friday August 14, 2020 @02:36PM
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Yep. All of it is just emergent shorthand, and none of it makes literal sense. :) If we had some specifically correct terminology, it would likely be quite a mouthful, either including genetic terminology or some mix of geography and time period, but both of those would probably still be insufficient. Race basically doesn't really exist in any clean delineation.
Re:Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants
by eli_gottlieb on Friday August 14, 2020 @11:07AM
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>Weird in its own way. White is a skin tone, Asian is a geographic location.
Asian is also a skin tone: the Middle East is in Asia, but counts as White for the US Census.
Re:Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants
by retox on Friday August 14, 2020 @11:05AM
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>Do you see the term "Asian" as having the same weirdness? It's even more geographically & ethnically overbroad than the word it replaced
This was the point I was ham-handedly trying to make earlier; White is broad, European is broader but neither are as broad as Asian in terms of population or even geographically.
Do you see the term "Asian" as having the same weirdness? It's even more geographically & ethnically overbroad than the word it replaced, as well as compared to 'white/european/caucasian'.
To my recollection, a big part of the reason the former term was shunned is because it verbally homogenized distinct ethnicities from south-east asia that would prefer to identify distinctly... only to now double down in literally including the entirety of the largest continent in the world! (which I guess just returns to the more historical use of the former term, but whatever) :)