Projected Racial Classification
The modern concept of race is a social construct. However an indisputable notion of race is possible (both eugenically and economically) by viewing people through a green filter and projecting onto this chart. Such a classification terminology can bypass the historical inadequacies that hinder the usage of current terms, whether colloquially or academically, since often such terms are inextricably connected to various forms of racial superiority theories or historical subjugation.
Such a new racial projection can also rationalise the terminology. A really common argument is that east Africans are genetically more distinct from West Africans than Europeans. But with the green filter, one notices that while west Africans are pine, the east Africans are juniper, which as you can see on the chart is adjacent to the chartreuse colour corresponding to people from former Yugoslavia
Region | Old terminology | PRC designation |
---|---|---|
default pan-classification | white | green |
East Europe | white | chartreuse |
Easy Africa | black | juniper |
Mediterranean | olive or white | sage |
Central Europe | white | lime |
East Asia | white or yellow (derogatory or offensive) | fern |
North Europe | white | olive |
Aboriginal Australian | brown or black | emerald |
Central Asia | brown | pear |
South Asia | brown | moss |
Middle East | olive or brown | shamrock |
Aboriginal North America | brown or red (derogatory or offensive) | seafoam |
West Africa | black | pine |
South America | brown or white | parakeet |
North Africa | black | mint |
North Asia | white | seaweed |
South Africa | black | pickle |
Arctic | white | pistachio |
Pacific | white or brown | basil |
Central Africa | black | crocodile |