<p>hey i was just wondering who all the caucasian/caucasian descent people were who have chosen brown…</p>
<p>i was curious about the schools they pick from and if they take lots of isc kids or a levels/ib and stuff like that… not as much of an “anglo pride” thing.</p>
<p>but anyway… post.</p>
<p>this is AWESOME</p>
<p>you know, there are other whites besides anglos. how about the celts, aryans etc. i'm so sick of this white = anglo thing.</p>
<p>south africa?</p>
<p>i thought those were honestly all considered caucasians, like caucasian is the big umbrella under which more specific classes of whites fall</p>
<p>don't you think classifying race at this point is racist ( and I mean that there shouldn't be any separatism or clubs or third world orientations which encourage any division between past cultures)? If we continue to classify people by race aren't we perpetuating racism and division?</p>
<p>in my biology textbook it stated that the different human races might actually be the beginnings of entirely new species. only complete isolation between each race would make this happen.</p>
<p>crazy schit</p>
<p>I'm half white. Do I count? Or is this post too elite for my inferior biracial self?</p>
<p>That depends on which box you checked on your application.</p>
<p>Are you going to try to get Brown University's name changed to White University?</p>
<p>Yes, and a breed of dog that farts louder than another is also the beginning of a new species. Any biological differentiation whatsoever is a step on the road to speciation.</p>
<p>The point is, the human "races" don't come close to even the more liberal - by which I mean generous - interpretations of race. They obviously miss the fundamental Mayr species concept, which is undboutedly the most accurate definition of species, but they fail other, secondary methods as well. "Interbreeding" is common and there is no real biological urge to not mate with other "races". Our traditional social strictures have nothing against, say, those Drosophila flies where not a single pair of two different groups will mate after several generations in different habitats, which would be a real example of selective mating clearly bringing about speciation. All human beings fill the same ecological niche. All human beings are remarkably genetically related to a very high degree. Anyways, I'm rambling. </p>
<p>Okay, okay, I don't have much else to do right now.</p>
<p>The only basis to differentiate human "races" on is the morphological species concept, but this is widely known to be the most inaccurate and is only used when we have nothing else to go on. For instance, we can't really observe the behaviours of or test the DNA of fossils. We can't gauge the mating selections of asexual organisms. An organism that was just spotted in the wild looks very odd but we haven't had time to run tests or observe it more carefully. And so forth. In the event that the Mayr or genetic or behavioural definitions can be drawn, they supersede morphology, and with humans, all three are applicable. (As well as with the ecological niche concept, but this is also a bit of an iffy method down there with morphology.)</p>
<p>This would be my long-winded way of saying that I find your textbook highly suspect if it can actually make the claim that the human "races" approximate anything close to different species. Morphological gradation based on climate is known as a cline and is known to happen in any and all species that span a wide geographical girth. Even the "canis familiaris" analogy goes too far, in my opinion. </p>
<p>Anyways, do white students not prefer Brown? I visited Brown quite recently for a campus tour, and there seemed to be a healthy amount of white students. The girl who gave us the tour was a white freshman. The guy in front of me in the line to the washroom was white. ;)</p>
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"Interbreeding" is common and there is no real biological urge to not mate with other "races"
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You've got to be kidding me.</p>
<p>for those of you saying we're being racists for bring up race, you are posting on the wrong thread. The point of this is to satirize the other threads that appear on here that are like "desis heading to brown 2010" or blacks, or hispanics or whatever other races people have put up here.</p>
<p>not all caucasian people are white. There was some court case which determined that Indian people, although caucasian, are not "white."</p>
<p>really? I thought the caucusus, the region from which the term caucasian comes from referred to a moutainous area in Russia. By Indian, do you mean a few indian people, or like Indians in general?</p>
<p>that's cool dan</p>
<p>Dictionary<br>
Caucasian |k</p>
<p>why do you bother?</p>
<p>very interesting, thank you for that</p>
<p>Ok, I don't get why it's okay for people to post threads that say "blacks going to (insert school)", "indians going to (insert school)" or "asians going to (insert school)", but the moment someone asks about white people, they get flamed as a racist.</p>
<p>Hypocritical much?</p>