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Ethnicity [message #21801]

Thu, 29 July 2004 10:54

timmy

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Location: UK, in Devon
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I am constructing a pick list for ethnicity that will be valid worldwide. I've hit a problem with "Asian".

In the UK we use the word to refer to the sub-continent. In the usa this means the chinese (type) of ethnicity

Please can someone who knows help me out? How do I define globally the differnece between an Indian/Bengali/Pakistani (without upsetting each of those, too, and Chinese/japanese/vietnamese etc?

And are there other ethnicity absurdities?

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		Ethnicity By: timmy on Thu, 29 July 2004 10:54
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