Just what Ethnicity are you?
Lindsay Mitchell has a chart showing the ethnicity of children born in 1998.
I have been confused over the years about what my ethnicity is - am I pakeha, european, or a New Zealander?
When in England a couple of years ago, a vandal smashed the mirror off my rental car. As a result I got a police report for the rental car company and the British Police record the ethnicity of all crime victims.
So, thanks to a helpful policeman in Manchester I know what my ethnicity is. After going through his form, he decided that I wasn't English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, European, Asian, Chinese, East Asian, or American.
According to the British Police, my ethnicity is "Other".
I have been confused over the years about what my ethnicity is - am I pakeha, european, or a New Zealander?
When in England a couple of years ago, a vandal smashed the mirror off my rental car. As a result I got a police report for the rental car company and the British Police record the ethnicity of all crime victims.
So, thanks to a helpful policeman in Manchester I know what my ethnicity is. After going through his form, he decided that I wasn't English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, European, Asian, Chinese, East Asian, or American.
According to the British Police, my ethnicity is "Other".
posted by Michael at
8:18 PM
1 Comments:
Your ethnicity is "caucasian", or "white". Any attempt to brand it otherwise ("New Zealander" being the primary one that leaps to mind) is merely a politically correct method of avoiding the point of the categorisation - which is to figure out what colour your skin is.
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Richard, at 10:39 AM
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