Are people from Spain and Portugal "white"? (user search)
       |           

Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
Did you miss your activation email?
May 31, 2024, 06:30:33 PM
News: Election Simulator 2.0 Released. Senate/Gubernatorial maps, proportional electoral votes, and more - Read more

  Talk Elections
  General Politics
  Individual Politics (Moderator: The Dowager Mod)
  Are people from Spain and Portugal "white"? (search mode)
Pages: [1]
Poll
Question: Are people from Spain and Portugal "white"?
#1
Yes		  
#2
No		  
Show Pie Chart
Partisan results
Total Voters: 81

Author Topic: Are people from Spain and Portugal "white"?  (Read 5873 times)
Tetro Kornbluth
Gully Foyle
Atlas Icon
*****
Posts: 12,853
Ireland, Republic of


« on: March 27, 2015, 06:45:48 PM »
Quote from: Charlotte Hebdo on March 27, 2015, 05:05:45 PM
Yes, being of european descent is the definition of white.


For a start, no  (Are Arabs non-White? What about, ehm, Caucasians?)

Second of all, the definition of White in the 1920s would have necessarily have included Southern Europeans.
Logged
Tetro Kornbluth
Gully Foyle
Atlas Icon
*****
Posts: 12,853
Ireland, Republic of


« Reply #1 on: March 27, 2015, 08:46:11 PM »
Logged
Tetro Kornbluth
Gully Foyle
Atlas Icon
*****
Posts: 12,853
Ireland, Republic of


« Reply #2 on: March 28, 2015, 12:45:55 PM »
Quote from: Charlotte Hebdo on March 28, 2015, 07:27:52 AM
Quote from: Lief 🐋 on March 28, 2015, 03:02:21 AM
hahah the Welsh being "Mediterranean" for some reason

(Presumed) pure Celtic stock (as in Cornwall!) and mainly based on phenotypes. Western Scotland/Western England and Western Ireland are marked as mixed Nordic/Mediterranean for the same reason. His faith in the pure Viking heritage of the Eastern Highlands is funny as well.

That comes from a book which was used to justify immigration quotas in 1920s America.

Anti-immigration popular sentiment of the period also questioned whether Southern or Eastern Europeans were really white.
Logged
Pages: [1]  
Jump to:  


Login with username, password and session length

Terms of Service - DMCA Agent and Policy - Privacy Policy and Cookies

Powered by SMF 1.1.21 | SMF © 2015, Simple Machines

Page created in 0.024 seconds with 14 queries.