I have a real question: I noticed someone else on this site asked about dating outside of their race...

All I know is that when the poster of the other question (not yours) made his query, I answered it by posting a picture of a dog with a really cute guy lying together.  I figured that was a pretty good example of "outside your race"  other than that though, I get your point.  Throughout centuries, decades, and years the term "race" has always been used to describe people of different ethnicities.  Why the word ethnicities was never more commonly used is beyond me.  I guess its the same as when someone asks you about your sex when filling out forms.  The correct way to ask is not "What is your sex?"  The correct term is gender.  "What is your gender?"  All of these terms such as race and sex seem to be changing of late as we become more informed and enlightened but all I can tell you Jamie is that people are stupid and if you try to keep up with stupid you will eventually feel stupid too.  BTW, if anyone ever wants to know what is my sex, let me state for the record that it is AWESOME!  (and that is an appropriate answer)

Just some thoughts on the issue, Jamie.

The meaning of words tend to change over time---I'm not really sure if there is general agreement on what the current terms mean.

On the one hand, there is only one human species---homo sapiens. 

Yet, Races may be genetically distinct populations of individuals within the same species, or they may be defined in other ways, e.g. geographically, or physiologically. Genetic isolation between races is not complete, but genetic differences may have accumulated that are not (yet) sufficient to separate species.

Then again, The world population can be divided into 4 major races, namely white/Caucasian,
Mongoloid/Asian, Negroid/Black, and Australoid.

But less that be too simple, In physical anthropology the term is one of the three general racial classifications of humans — Caucasoid, Mongoloid and Negroid.

Is Australoid a race or not?---The Australoid race is a racial classification used to refer to aboriginal people of Australia, India, Melanesia, parts of Southeast Asia as well as parts of East Asia. 

And finally (?)---A race is a grouping of humans based on shared physical or social qualities into categories generally viewed as distinct by society. First used to refer to speakers of a common language and then to denote national affiliations, by the 17th century the term race began to refer to physical (phenotypical) traits.

I once worked in a company that had a large number of what are now called "Blacks," by who had been previously called---in my lifetime---"African Americans" and "Negroes."  I had a reputation for not seeing "color"---largely due to my upbringing.

Use whatever nomenclature you want---anybody who objects is just being too picky in my opinion.

WHY is it a big issue?


Who cares?  

It is a non-issue.    I don't even notice that garbage.

In my professional opinion, haha, I think that people who are easily offended and need for everything to be politically correct, are the one's with the problem.  We shouldn't have to tiptoe through society, tripping over our words, for fear that we might offend someone's delicate feelings.
Supposed you were mugged by a 5 foot Asian man with pink hair.  When you are describing him to the police are you going to forget to say:

1.  he's a man
2.  he's short 
3.  he's Asian
4.  he has dyed pink hair

Just like Nofunding...  said,  "who cares?  It's no big deal.  It's only a big deal to those who are overly sensitive for whatever the reason.

This post was edited by Natz at March 29, 2019 12:38 PM MDT