LOL> I happen to have an in-law from Long Island. Hispanic too. She's about as white-looking as anyone around my part of Wisconsin. Which considering this area is heavily populated with Scandinavians makes her pretty light-skinned. I'm against all racial classifications.
Well, the term has become so corrupted over the past 25 years, much of it from polltical correctness crap.
I am active on a Slovak forum that has many Brits, one of which is a pure troll who post under many names, and always to prevaricate.
One time when I was complaining about the British stag party
kids, he called me a racist. It is a bit strange, considering that I am Scotch and Irish... go figure.
With PC, if you say anything derogatory about ANYONE, you are called a racist.
I am from the old school that recognizes Caucasian, Negroid, and Mongoloid. Of course there are numerous subdivisions.