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I really have been annoyed lately with the race question on so many forms and web services. Perhaps I am just a bit obsessive, but I am a just someone that likes things to be "right". I think that if you are going to go to the trouble of asking questions, it should be to get as much accurate raw data as possible.
So here is my issue. Why isn't white a choice? There is Caucasian, but Caucasus is in Eurasia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasus [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasus] )
I have done a bit of genealogy, and haven't found any ancestors from that area of the world. My family is from the US all the way back to the mid 1700's. Prior to that they were English. My friends that are from the republic of Georgia and Azerbaijan consider themselves to be Caucasian.
My husband is from a former soviet country in Central Asia. India and Pakastan are also in Central Asia. It would seem to them that they are Asian, but most people would say that Asian mean east asian, like Japan and Korea.
My biggest gripe is the box for African American. What they mean by that is black. I would say person of color, but that would include Samoans, Native Americans and Hispanics to name a few. The thing is, not all black people are both of African decent and American. This just isn't the case. I know several people that are black from places like Haiti, Dominican Republic and even the UK. These people are neither African nor American.
I don't know, perhaps I am just being too obsessive. It just seems to me that political correctness should not be a substitute for correctness. I vote that we all just mark other on those forms and fill in what we think we are.
