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The racial categorization system that we persist in using is as arbitrary as Borges's despite its "scientific" aura.
Understanding a little of this history of racial categorization can help place the issue of colorism in some much-needed context.
Whatever the eventual answer, as immigration continues and "interracial" marriage becomes increasingly common, the Census Bureau's problems with racial categorization are likely to increase.
The system of racial categorization implemented by Western colonizers awarded more privileges to men and women of color who more closely resembled whites, and the lasting effects of such favoritism can still be felt around the world.
It is the pragmatic need to recognize racial divisions despite their deeper irrelevance that bedevils both the Census Bureau and the many Americans, now filling out their forms or talking to census takers, who resist rigid racial categorization.
Attempts by Jews to lump their co-religionists together as "international Jewry" are misleading; ironically, they mirror Hitler's failed attempts at racial categorization of Jews.Auschwitz was not a Jewish tragedy, it was a tragedy for all of Europe.
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They reinforced crude racial categorizations, which repelled many Americans.
While Ms. Sotomayor embraced her ethnicity in college and helped bring more Hispanics to campus, Mr. Thomas began to worry about the consequences of racial categorizations and grew skeptical of Holy Cross's efforts to enroll blacks.
Socially and politically tinged aspects of reductionist research in biology, such as racial categorizations based on genetic profiles, also continue to provoke philosophical analyses (see Section 5).
But as entertaining as our newfound work may be, we're certain to encounter some serious issues: from migrant workers to illegal status, racial and LGBTT categorization, much of our jobs will require sensitivity to the issues that often divide America.
A great many readers, however, expressed the wish that the government and members of the media would simply stop using racial and ethnic categorizations, because, as one reader put it, "marking people by race is the most racist of all actions".
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