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...history of interacting with people who are offended to be confused with others of their race. This indignation on the listener’s part is also misplaced. People of all races fail at identifying ethnic minorities. When I was traveling in Tanzania last summer, my two Caucasian traveling companions, a redhead and a brunette, were constantly frustrated that many Tanzanians couldn’t differentiate between them. They didn’t understand that the marker of hair color was overlooked by Tanzanians, who do not usually identify by this feature. Just like an art professor would look...
...many as 10 percent of Caucasian infants—mostly girls—develop the benign tumor after birth. Made up of proliferating blood vessels, the tumor generally appears in the upper neck or head...
...should he be given this label? Technically, Obama is biracial—his mother is Caucasian and his father is Kenyan. Obama himself wrote movingly about his multicultural background in Dreams from My Father, and he speaks frequently about his diverse roots. Yet the public debate still centers over whether people will vote for a “black” president, whether Obama represents the interests of his black constituents, and whether he is in general “black enough...
...stratification is such that Hawaii today is a state where not all residents can be called Hawaiian. There is no single ethnic majority in the state and only people who are descended from the original inhabitants of the islands are properly called Hawaiians. Residents of Asian, Caucasian, African or other descent are simply called locals. It is the Hawaiians, who made up 21% of the state's population in 2007 - down from 23% in 2000 - who most vocally oppose a new ConCon, concerned that it would dilute their position in the islands. "People who have achieved about as much...
Obama's family in Hawaii has kept a relatively low profile through his campaign. But his grandmother was anything but low key during her career. Dunham was a trailblazer in her day in the 1960s and 1970s, a Caucasian female who rose in 1970 to become one of the first two female vice presidents at Bank of Hawaii, the islands' largest bank at the time. After she retired in the mid-1980s, she has mainly kept to herself in the Beretania apartment, cared for mostly by Obama's sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng. Soetoro-Ng does appear on her brother...