Originally posted by wolferman
That is my photo in the icon. And probably the reason I don't "look" like a URM is because I'm half URM and half caucasian.
What's up woflerman?
You make it sound like URM and caucasian are mutually exclusive. I don't know if your "URM half" is African-American or Latino, but the average African-American is almost 1/4 Caucasian (and that's just the average) and Latino can be either Caucasian, Asian, or Black-African:
Racially, Latinos can be
Asian (indigenous North or South American Indians),
Caucasian (example: Southern European descendants such as boxer Oscar de la Hoya or singer Marc Anthony) or
Black-African (example: Brazilian soccer player, Pele) or bi-racially Asian/Caucasian (exampe: Jennifer Lopez).
Also, not all "whites" (or "light-skinned people") are Caucasian and not all Caucasians are "white"...they can be "people of color" as well.
Of the 3 races (
Asian, Black-African, Caucasian), skin color does not necessarily determine one's race.
There are light-skinned ASIANS:
northern Chinese, Koreans, Mongolians, North American native Indians/Eskimos/Aleutians...
and
dark-skinned ASIANS ("people of color"):
South East Asians (Vietnamese, Thailand, etc...), South American/Central American/Caribbean/Mexican indigenous native Indians, Polynesians (natives of Tahiti, Samoa, Hawaii, etc...).
And there are light-skinned CAUCASIANS:
Europeans, Russians...
and
dark-skinned CAUCASIANS ("people of color"):
People from North Africa and the Middle East (Libyans, Morrocans, Egyptians, Palestinians, Syrians, etc...), people from Western Asia (Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, etc...) and people from India.
