Talk:Racial classification of Indian Americans
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[edit] Name change
I think this article should be changed to "Racial classification of South Asian Americans", so the information in there doesn't have to be reproduced in the Pakistani American article. As it stands, racial classification information in the Pakistani American article is a prohibited WP:CFORK of this article.----DarkTea 17:13, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
- keep in mind that all the Supreme Court cases were pre-Independence, and therefore India was synonymous with "British India" which included most of South Asia. Given that this article documents the history of racial classification, I think it's appropriate to use the nomenclature used in the legal documents themselves, which always specified "Indian" - except in 1925 where the court ruled on "Punjabis" specifically, which the wiki article does make note of. -- Thoreaulylazy 18:10, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Changes
User:Thoreaulylazy made some big changes to the article which removed the part about Parsis being classified as white, Roma being classified as white, poor Indians identifying as black, Indians who identify as brown not identifying with Hispanics, the US Census' definition of race using the phrase "origins in the original peoples of". I would like that user to explain her self/him self, since there was no edit summary for these edits.----DarkTea© 22:32, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
