The Profile "ethnicity" field is all over the place. It was poorly implemented from the start but tolerated by inertia, I guess. Let's see ... which of these are "ethnicities" and which are "national origin" or "cultural identity" or whatever mish mosh term you want to use:
White, Latina, Asian, African American, Native American, French, German, Italian, Middle Eastern, English, South American, Baltic, Hawaiian, Eastern European, Spanish, Indian, Mixed.
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"Native American" should be (I think), "Indigenous Peoples" (American Indians [feathers, not dots
], Eskimos, Aleuts, Aztecs, Incas, ...) but many reviewers use it to mean an "American born and raised white chick, even if her ancestors were pure Polish, Scottish, Italian, or Dutch."
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I'd bet that someone from Morocco would be called Middle Eastern by most reviewers (even though Morocco is not in the Middle East). And someone from Bangladesh would also be called Middle Eastern. Or not.
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And many reviewers use the "ethnicity" field as a substitute for color (complexion).
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If TER is working or planning on updates, they need to add "Complexion" (with a color chart, not adjectives) and some alternative to ethnicity, e.g., "cultural identity" to give us an idea of who we will be meeting.
Posted By: inicky46
Re: The TER category is correct.
"Jewish" is a religion not an ethnic group, though some Jews are ethnically similar, like Ashkenazi or Sephardic. All are Semitic, which is Middle Eastern.