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What race am I? What race are roma and half roma and quarter roma etc.?
I ask not because I AM obsessed but because it is very important topic often like "what is more important language or race" and then many saying race is much more important, or people asking like "do you prefer your own race or another race"... For those questions I usually treat roma (and myself and mixed roma) as a race, but is it valid to say roma are a race? Or we must say they are actually a hybrid race and on a cline/spectrum that some are more european and some cluster with pakistanis, are all roma the same race or are roma a race? What if you are a quarter roma or half roma? Are you the same race as someone who is roma but very little european or quiete less then you?
Also for that question I also quote, wikipedia which says ethnicities can be races, so if roma are not technically a race, are they a ethnicity and can ethnicities be considered races?
I mean even indians arent technically a race a but a mixed race, so maybe a ethnicity, but most people think indian is a race or southasian is a race.... right? So why not roma a race? Are Jews a race? A ethnicity?
I need to understand that to answer all the threads in future, and if i have the right approach to consider all roma as "one race"?
While the concepts of race and ethnicity are considered to be separate in contemporary social science, the two terms have a long history of equivalence in popular usage and older social science literature. "Ethnicity" is often used in a sense close to one traditionally attributed to "race", the division of human groups based on qualities assumed to be essential or innate to the group (e.g. shared ancestry or shared behavior). Racism and racial discrimination are often used to describe discrimination on an ethnic or cultural basis, independent of whether these differences are described as racial.
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Originally Posted by Laredo
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