> Well, now, another political correctness-o-philiac. I think political correctness is getting too out of hand. It has major gaping flaws, like what if the person isn't an American? What do you call them then? Latin-Canadian? African-African? I don't know many white people who call themselves Caucasian; I don't know many black people who call themselves African-American.
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> In fact, this whole thing reminded me of a post I was part of a few months ago. Someone pointed out that there was a Caucasian mountain range. Well, today, I looked in my dictionary for it, and I didn't find it, but it did say that Caucasian came from a term coined by a German anthropologist who mistakenly thought that Indo-European civilization came from the Caucasus region. I looked on a map in the back of my dictionary, and what do I see? A region labeled "Caucasus" in a southern portion of the USSR. Clearly, Caucasus is not part of the USSR anymore, but that region was a part sticking from the main body of the USSR, bordering with Turkey and Iran. On the west of Caucasus is the Black Sea, and on the east is the Caspian sea. I don't know what this area is called nowadays in modern times, but I know I sure didn't come from there. Therefore, I refuse to be called Caucasian. You may call me white, or you may call me Dutch-German-Irish-Hungarian-Scottish-Polish-English-French-American. No "European-American" for me, thank you; it's too general. You may also call me Morris.

I'm a Pakeha. That's a New Zealander of mostly white origin. More specifically, I guess I'm a Scottish-Italian-American-Yugoslavian-English-Irish-New Zealander. Which is pretty much the typical definition of a Pakeha, anyway, if anybody ever cared enough to try to define one genetically.

Brunnen-"crosses out ethnicity questions on surveys and writes "NZer" beside the question defiantly"G