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| '''White people''' (also '''white race''' or '''whites''') is an informal label given to a segment of the ] population based on inconsistently-applied characteristics such as ethnicity, country of origin, skin tone, language, and religion as discussed below. | |||
| The designation has social, political, scientific, and legal implications such as on a nation's ], ], ], ], ], racial ], and ]. | |||
| ==Social vs. physical perceptions of ''white''== | |||
| See also: ] | |||
| Whether any individual considers any other individual as ''white'' comes down to whether the person ''looks white''; however this is a very subjective judgement.{{fact}} Furthermore, ''white people'' is a term whose definition changes over time and space. Today, most Americans consider Eastern ] and many consider European ] as ''white,'' but this was not always the case.{{fact}} | |||
| In ], ] was the dominant community, and ], ], ], and ] were the outsiders, regardless of skin color. When the primacy of ] was eroded by the ], the ], and ], separation of peoples based on religion shifted to concepts like ''white'' and '']''.<ref>Painter, Nell Irvin. Yale University. Collective Degradation:Slavery and the Construction of Race. Why White People are Called Caucasian. 2003. October 9, 2006. <http://www.yale.edu/glc/events/race/Painter.pdf#search=%22%20%22light%20colored%20people%22%22>. | |||
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| ==United States== | |||
| {{main|White American}} | |||
| David R. Roediger argues that the construction of the white race in the United States was in direct effort to mentally distance slaveowners from slaves. <ref>Roediger, Wages of Whiteness, 186; Tony Horwitz, Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War (New York, 1998). </ref> By the 18th century, ''white'' had become well established as a racial term. In the ], confusion over the designation ''white'' or '']'' is considerable, due partly to the introduction of the term '']'' in the 1980 ]. | |||
| The 2000 ], speaking of race categories, states, "They generally reflect a social definition of race recognized in this country. They do not conform to any biological, anthropological or genetic criteria."<ref>'''' from '''U.S. Census Bureau''', 14 March 2001. Retrieved 15 October 2006.</ref> | |||
| The ] give national origin a racial value. This can be confusing in regards to people of ] and ] — who are commonly classified as ]. Another difficulty is that by responding ] in the ], a person will be categorized as white, even though not all Israelis are of European descent (]); they may be of ] (]), Yemenite (]), or ] descent.{{fact}} | |||
| ==United Kingdom== | |||
| In the UK, the ] uses the term ''White'' as an ethnic category. The terms '']'', ''White Irish'' and ''White Other'' are used. ''White British'' includes ], ] and ] peoples, as well as residents of ] who identify as British. ] may describe themselves as ''White Irish''. The category ''White Other'' includes all white people not from the British Isles, <ref>'''', '''Ethnicity and Identity, National Statistics online.''' Retrieved 03 November 2006.</ref><ref>'''', '''Ethnicity and religion'''. Retrieved 03 November 2001.</ref> although people of Middle Eastern ancestry are not seen as white people in the UK.<ref>Kissoon, Priya. King's College of London. Asylum Seekers: National Problem or National Solution. 2005. November 7, 2006.</ref> | |||
| ==Latin America== | |||
| In some ]n countries, even those of visible partial ]n or ] ancestry may be considered ''white.''{{fact}} The individual decides what (if any) race he or she wishes to be considered as. In some countries such as Argentina, Mexico, Uruguay, Chile etc. the majority of the population is of Spanish or other European ancestry, making them white or half white (]) {{fact}}. Race in parts of Latin America "refers mostly to skin color or physical appearance rather than to ancestry.{{fact}} According to census takers' instructions in Brazil, ''color'' is explicitly defined as recording the subject's observed skin tone and has nothing to do with ''race.''{{fact}} Nevertheless, skin color is used to identify racial heritage. {{fact}} | |||
| ==China== | |||
| In China, a specific group of Asians - people who would not be considered white in the United States (known as the Bai) - are considered white. | |||
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| ==References== | |||
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| ==Further reading== | |||
| * Thomas A. Guglielmo, ''White on Arrival: Italians, Race, Color, and Power in Chicago'', 1890-1945, 2003, ISBN 0-19-515543-2 | |||
| * Matthew Frye Jacobson, ''Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race'', Harvard, 1999, ISBN 0-674-95191-3. | |||
| * Frank W. Sweet, ''Legal History of the Color Line: The Rise and Triumph of the One-Drop Rule'', Backintyme, 2005, ISBN 0-939479-23-0. | |||
| * Noel Ignatiev, ''How the Irish Became White'', Routledge, 1996, ISBN 0-415-91825-1. | |||
| * Karen Brodkin, ''How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says About Race in America'', Rutgers, 1999, ISBN 0-8135-2590-X. | |||
| *Neil Foley, ''The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture'' (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997) | |||
| *Theodore Allen, ''The Invention of the White Race'', 2 vols. (London: Verso, 1994) | |||
| *Thomas F. Gossett, ''Race: The History of an Idea in America,'' New ed. (New York: Oxford University, 1997) | |||
| *Ivan Hannaford, ''Race: The History of an Idea in the West'' (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University, 1996) | |||
| *Audrey Smedley, ''Race in North America: Origin and Evolution of a Worldview,'' 2nd ed. (Boulder: Westview, 1999). | |||
| * "The United Independent Compensatory Code/System/Concept" A textbook/workbook for thought, speech and/or action for victims of racism (White supremacy) Neely Fuller Jr. 1984 | |||
| * Alfredo Tryferis, "Separated by a Common Language: The Strange Case of the White Hispanic," ''The Raw Story'', http://www.rawstory.com/exclusives/tryferis/hispanic.htm | |||
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| * Precedents of legal opinions and judgments authored by US courts in ''whiteness'' cases filed by non-Europeans | |||
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