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What are your criteria and standards to consider a person white?
I completely disagree with one-drop rule because it wouldn't make sense even in Europe (homeland of white people), since some Iberians and Italians, for example, usually score some MENA (even if it's minor), and sometimes they can score (not so often) even a low percentage of SSA (when it happens, it's usually lower than 1%, but it still happens). Furthermore, some eastern-europeans (especially Hungarians and Romanians, for example) and some northeastern-europeans (Finns, Russians, Estonians, Lithuanians and so on) very often score some eastern-Asian DNA (in most cases, not a higher amount than 5%) and all these people mentioned before should not only be considered white, but also fully-European. The minor non-Euro admixture doesn't make most of them look non-white. That's why I reject the "one-drop rule" and related concepts when it comes to race. The only standard I adopt for considering someone white is having a phenotype that passes as a native somewhere in Europe. I don't take genetics into account at all.
For example: this footballer (David Luiz) and his sister were born from the same parents (white mother and mulatto/griffe father) and probably share similar DNA results:
I consider him white, because he can easily pass in places like Iberia, Italy (and not even as a wog one; his phenotype looks average euro - and would look even more if he had a haircut or a hair straightening, although there are minor native people from Europe with very curly hair like his).
On the other hand, his sister looks typically mulatta and therefore, doesn't pass as a native in Europe - so, I obviously won't consider her white.
This is my objective standard to determine whether a person is or is not white.
And you? What are your criteria and standards to determine objectively if a person is white or not?
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Originally Posted by Padanian
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