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Have you got any weird questions FROM the opposite gender? (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by Cryophilia@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Misread the title of the other post which made me think of this question.

I, as a male, have had multiple women ask me how we ride bikes without smashing our balls.

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[-] NaoPb@eviltoast.org 2 points 6 months ago

I'm gonna ask. Is there a difference between white and caucasian?

[-] TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

Is there a difference between white and caucasian?

“Caucasian,” the classification from when we thought race was biological rather than social, referred broadly to people from Europe, and some from Northern Africa, and parts of the Middle East and West Asia. Caucasoid was one of three, alongside Mongoloid and Negroid.

Now in North American English “Caucasian” refers to people who are generally white and from European descent. It is sometimes seen as having a more polite or scientific connotation than “white.”

It can also refer to people from the Caucasus region.

[-] NaoPb@eviltoast.org 2 points 6 months ago

Thanks

[-] match@pawb.social 4 points 6 months ago

Oh yeah, people from the Caucasus region of Europe/Asia aren't white in America anymore

[-] Cryophilia@lemmy.world -1 points 6 months ago

Probably? Not in colloquial usage but I'm sure there's an academic difference.

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