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Re: Identifying Race
Jesse S. Cook III (jcook@AWOD.COM)
Wed, 31 Jul 1996 13:26:49 -0400
On 31 July 1996, Chuck Coker replied:
>J Cook wrote:
>
>[snip]
>> > Looking at her ancestry, I see (using stereotypical labels) Cherokee,
Apache,
>> > Zapotec, Mexican, Black, and White. Now which box should be checked?
(I ruled
>> > out Asian, BTW.)[snip]
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>> You shouldn't have "ruled out Asian". The so-called "Native americans" came
>> over from Asia sometime before 12,000 years ago. And that includes all the
>> "stereotypical labels" you listed except "Black and White". They, of course,
>> came over some time later.
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>Good point! I didn't think of that at the time. Maybe I should have given
>the school office personnel (an unwanted) lecture on migration patterns. :-)
>
>Of course, if we go back far enough, we must all be African, right?
Right!
Jesse S. Cook III E-Mail: jcook@awod.com
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"Our attitude toward others is not determined by who *they* are;
it is determined by who *we* are."
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