Author	Thread: Ethnicity and Ancestry
1mountain View Profile History	Ethnicity and Ancestry Posted : 24 Dec, 2014 11:05 PM Since this is a worldwide site terms such as 'African American' make little to no sense here. Someone recently viewed my profile who lives in Nairobi, and she had to say she was African American instead of African which would have made more sense. Also racially and genetically someone from India is very different from someone from China. I know this from studying immunohaematology and genetics. We need to change all of the ethnic categories in light of this. I suggest all of our current categories be replaced with the following options. I also suggest we change the term 'Ethnicity' to 'Primary Ancestry' to be more accurate. Your profile says which country you live in after all, so an African Canadian can select their primary ancestry as African and select that they live in Canada. Primary Ancestry categories: (in no particular order) (hope I can remember them all) African (for sub-saharan africa) Mediterranean Southern European Eastern European Northern European European Middle Eastern Indian Asian Phillippino Indonesian Native American Hispanic Pacific Islander Native Australian Other Indigenous People and of course Other for people who don't feel they fit any of these. Thus a person of Taiwanese descent living in England would select Asian and their country of residence as England. Or a South African of Dutch descent would select European as their Primary Ancestry. I would select the same though I live in America, and the young lady who viewed me living in Africa could select simply African rather than African American since she lives in Kenya. Perhaps the menu could even be changed so someone who was of both English and African descent living in Australia could select both ancestries rather than just 'mixed race' which isn't a very helpful catchall term. Post Reply
View Profile History	Ethnicity and Ancestry Posted : 29 Dec, 2014 05:55 PM OK but that would serve if all here were real "profiles" and trulelly interested for the fellowship it is supposed to be thought but... :zzzz: Post Reply
1mountain View Profile History	Ethnicity and Ancestry Posted : 29 Dec, 2014 09:27 PM Funny, yeah I know right? The main thing that bugs me is the way it's currently arranged it's far too Amerocentric, regardless of the fact the site is so popular in many countries. A worldwide site in this day and age shouldn't focus so much on any single country. Post Reply