Pull up your horses!
The thread is not supposed to discuss whether classification is precisely correct or not - at the very least, I can no longer do anything to change it (even if I wished to, and I do not) - once the poll is posted, nobody (but administrator, but that's obvious) could alter it - see spelling error in one of my first polls, standing to my shame for two years and more. At the most, there is
not a single, commonly agreed upon classification at all. I lean on sources (U.S. Census) generally accepted as fit for public surveys of the kind.
As in 'religion' poll Christian option was given more diversification because of assumed majority of Christian readers, so here I've came to opposite conclusion -- the very obvious majority of 'white' (Caucasian, whatever term you'd like to employ) readers made me make only one entry for them. So,
no new categories will be added to current poll, neither alteration is to come about. Probably, if need be, I may open up special poll to study diversification
inside the 'Caucasian' group, but here the purpose is to compare the group with the 'rest of the world'.
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There is not enough genetic difference to determine any actual race. If there were, we would divide homo sapiens sapiens into sub species, like homo sapiens caucasia, etc. All humans are in fact 99.9995% exactly alike. It's that 0.0005% that determines any unique physical characteristics.
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Yes, and yes, and another yes. But 'unique physical characteristics' is what rouses general interest, all in all. If the difference was expressed in form and colour of the liver, or in something equally invisible on the surface and there were no outwardly expressed deviations, nobody would think twice about the issue but genetic engineers. Do not look at the poll as a 'scientific' enterprise - it's more sociology than anthropology, and sociology is not what I'd call 'exact science'
Conclusion - the thread is not about what
you 'want', it's about what
I asks, and asks nicely, and even begs, if you please
