Spare your breath, portmanteau. I rather suspect that R. Harricharan will take your remark as a compliment . (Unless the gun-toting thing is a pose. Some of the disclosures that he “reluctantly” makes on the Obama-Pak thread suggests that either his Navy days are well behind him, or he is Mr. Loose Lips.)

Eiether way- if it is, or isn’t, why does it matter in a modern, liberal democracy like the USA? Is your concern that the Jim Crow laws may be reenacted and ‘the white people’ won’t recognize that you are a first class citizen because of your skin?

Honesty I’m curious. How do you think your life will change if everyone “embraces” Indians as caucasian- what will that do for you? It’s obvious from your comments you are not involved in medical/pharmacology research, nor even a creditable poser,what’s up?

So then… modern science is all bunk, and at some undisclosed point (maybe around the time eugenics was discredited by the Shoah Holocaust) all scientists stopped doing science? Should we just turn back the clock, then? Maybe discard genetics in favor of phrenology?

You know what the Jesuits (one might think of them as a variety radical behaviorists) say, “Give me the boy until he is seven and I will give you the man.” Did they collaborate with the CIA in some sinister experiment at the height of the Cold War and put you in a bizarro skinner box to produce a jingoistic, gun-toting hyper-reactionary?

SM-ers I apologize for the ad-hominem nature of this remark, but it is precipitated by this gem:

Whatever your wishes may be the idea of RACE is not an an idea but a Biological fact.

Your 8th grade biology teacher seems to have a twisted sense of humor. Hopefully, she at least denied the existence of the tooth fairy, Santa Claus, and the Loch Ness monster. I suggest that you go read a few ‘modern’ genetics and
biological anthropology texts. I would make some recommendations but..

I never had much patience as a teacher. Do the research yoursel[f].

Oh yeah ? Where did you learn that ?? My best friend — who went to a Presbytarian school overseas — learnt in 8th-grade biology that there are four races!!!

Somewhat less flippantly, contrast this from #96:

Race is more than physical appearance and skin color (although these are some features) Race has to do with blood and genetics. There are certain diseases that are race specific eg. Cystic Fibrosis and Tay Sachs.

with this from #95

Furthermore, we haven’t heard of any bioinformatic studies that establish even a moderate correlation between the nature of a closely-acting complex (as opposed to a few genes that determine, say, sickle-cell anaemia) of non-physique-related genes and racial type.

(emphasis mine) In other words, Rajesh, your #96 does not convey anything beyond what everybody knows (apart from the somewhat interesting disclosure that your 8th-grade biology textbooks seem to be stuck in the era of T.E. Lawrence and J.G. Frazer). I sympathise with you that you have no patience as a teacher. But you are not off the hook until you explain to us, without any hand-waving arguments, the biological basis for the categorization implicit in the statement: “The Bushman is different in physical statue and appearance than the Massai but they belong to the same race.”

America is the strongest country in the world right now. So, Caucasoids must be The Amazing Race.