[link] Yes, Cindy.

Aren't Indians considered Caucasian?

depends on the geographical region of the referrer. For example, in London, Indians were referred to (and referred to themselves) as asian. Confused me a lot in the beginning.

Aren't Indians considered Caucasian?

Not when you're fitting people into ethnic/racial slots.

Noo reason you can't be caucasian and Asian, though. I mean, calling them Asian doesn't make them the same "race" as most of China.

Which is possibly why both labels and race are kinda weak.

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Not when you're fitting people into ethnic/racial slots.

Are you talking more than the old-school three racial slots? Caucasian isn't an ethnicity anyway.

Well, I'm talking when you mark checkboxes in surveys or case report forms.

What do you put down?

I mean, the boxes on the forms vary depending on what data they need. Some are in the race mindset, other focus on ethnicity. Others are just crap forms.

The ever-popular Asian/Pacific Islander is normally the closest.

The closest to you, or the closest to what you check? I have a strange suspicion that most of those forms aren't well thought out, but before my mother said "Fuck it, let's go with ethnicity instead" on her data collection, her research, if given three categories put your average Indian into the caucasian file.

I've always associated "Caucasian" with "white" and have interpreted the checkboxes accordingly. They usually have Caucasian, African-American, Hispanic, Native American, and Asian/Pacific Islander, and while that lumps me in with Chinese/Japanese/Vietnamese/Korean, it's the closest and the one I've always chosen. I may have asked the first time and been told to check that and never looked back.

That's an ethnicity form, then, since it has Hispanic (assuming that it's choose one, not choose all applicable--those work better).