Save me the spelling lessons... :P
I am inclined to agree, nationality itself is quite a mess alone even when
verifiable (in the case of Einstein for example). Of course if I cfd'ed
ethnicities the cfd would fail almost automatically. It is not like we have
another body to discuss such issues (the parallel discussion).
We should probably focus on a scheme based on country for people rather than
ethnicity.
Was there ever a discussion on why we should categorize African Americans
and Danish Americans differently? What role does ones ethnicity play in
fields of science for example?
- Cool Cat
On 2/13/07, charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com <charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com>
wrote:
"Cool Cat" wrote
You misunderstand.
We can have [[Category:Jew (religon)]] [[Category:Jew (ethicity)]] and
not
[[Category:Jew]].
The thing is category should be used for one thing. The term being a
confusing one only supports this separation.
Assuming better spelling, this is still a can of worms, of course.
I'm really not happy with ethnicity categories, as a whole. Is 'ethnicity'
verifiable? Sounds unscientific, anyway. Of ourse we can have
'self-identified ethnicity'. I'm glad to see [[Terence Tao]] is back to
identification as 'Australian mathematician'. There was a time when he was
categorised as 'choose any two' out of Chinese, American and Australian.
Charles
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