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For instance, a person whose ancestry is one eighth Chinese is not defined as just Chinese, or East Asian, or a member of the mongoloid race.

The United States certainly does not apply a one-drop rule to its white ethnic populations either, which include both national and religious groups. Ethnicity has often been confused with racial biology, and not just in Nazi Germany.

Americans do not insist that an American with a small fraction of Polish ancestry be classified as a Pole, or that someone with a single remote Greek ancestor be designated Greek, or that someone with any trace of Jewish lineage is a Jew and nothing else.

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It is interesting that, in The Passing of the Great Race (1916), Madison Grant maintained that the one-drop rule should be applied not only to blacks but also to all the other ethnic groups he considered biologically inferior "races," such as Hindus, Asians in general, Jews, Italians, and other Southern and Eastern European peoples

. "To be consistent, shouldn't you say that someone who is one-eighth white is passing as black?"

The concept of passing applies only to blacks

 

consistent with nation's unique definition of the group.

A person who is one-fourth of less American Indian or Korean or Filipino is not regarded as passing if he or she intermarries and joins fully the life of the dominant community, so the minority ancestry need not be hidden.

It is often suggested that the key reason for this is that the physical differences between African blacks and whites, and therefore are less threatening to whites.

However, keep in mind that the one-drop rule and anxiety about passing originated during slavery and later received powerful reinforcement under the Jim Crow system.

 

 

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It should now be apparent that the definition of a black person as one with any trace at all of black African ancestry is inextricably woven into the history of the United States. It incorporates beliefs once used to justify slavery and later used to buttress the caste like Jim Crow system of segregation.

In 1870 and 1880, mulattoes were officially defined to include "quadroons, octoroons, and all persons having any perceptible trace of African blood." In 1980 enumerators were told to record the exact proportion of the "African blood," again relying on visibility. In 1900 the Census Bureau specified that "pure Negroes" be counted separately from mulattoes, the latter to mean "all persons' with some trace of black blood." In 1920 the mulatto category was dropped, and black was defined toMean any person with any black ancestry, as it has been ever since.

No other ethnic population in the nation, including those with visibility non-Caucasoid features, is defined and counted according to a one-drop rule.

For example, persons whose ancestry is one-fourth or less American Indian are not generally defined as Indian unless they want to be, and they are considered assimilating Americans who may even be proud of having some

 

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Indian ancestry. The same implicit rule appears to apply to Japanese Americans, Filipinos, or other peoples from East Asian nations and also to Mexican Americans who have Central American Indian ancestry, as a large majority do. For instance, a person whose ancestry is one eighth Chinese is not defined as just Chinese, or East Asian, or a member of the mongoloid race.

The United States certainly does not apply a one-drop rule to its white ethnic populations either, which include both national and religious groups.

Ethnicity has often been confused with racial biology, and not just in Nazi Germany.

Americans do not insist that an American with a small fraction of Polish ancestry be classified as a Pole, or that someone with a single remote Greek ancestor be designated Greek, or that someone with any trace of Jewish lineage is a Jew and nothing else.

It is interesting that, in The Passing of the Great Race (1916), Madison Grant maintained that the one-drop rule should be applied not only to blacks but also to all the other ethnic groups he considered biologically inferior "races," such as Hindus, Asians in general, Jews, Italians, and other Southern and Eastern European peoples.

 

To be consistent, shouldn't you say that someone who is one-eighth white is passing as black?"