# Being "white" or "not white"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-white-or-not-white/220145>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [December 20, 2003, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-white-or-not-white/220145 "2003-12-20T08:13:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-white-or-not-white/220145/21 "2003-12-21T01:02:27Z")

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The recent UK census had separate categories for “White British”, “White Irish”, and “White Other”, which seems to be a sensible way to start dividing everybody up into their constituent parts…

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**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-white-or-not-white/220145/22 "2003-12-21T01:08:21Z")

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My cite is my username.

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