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White people[edit]

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Inactivity.

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Filed: 16:52, February 26 2007 (UTC)

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The term white people does not refer perceived color of skin per se[1]; the people described can be pinkish,[2] reddish,[citation needed] white, tan or golden brown[3] in skin color, extending the perception of white skin to a much broader set of people. In this term, white functions as a color metaphor for race,[4] one that emerged from a racialized, European historical context.[5]
  • Should a modified version of the text replace it, if it does not remain?
  • Is the following text a NPOV statement? Does it comply with WP:NOR and WP:VERIFY:
The population of people classified as white has a predominant European ancestry, along with substantial ancestry from other continents. Both maternal and paternal lines among white people trace to European as well as non-European lines.

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Parties' agreement to mediate[edit]

All parties should sign below, indicating that they agree to mediate the issue. If any party fails to sign, or if a party indicates they do not agree, then the mediation will be rejected. Only signatures and "agree" or "disagree" should appear here; any comments will be removed.
  1. Agree.--Carwil 16:52, 26 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Okay as modified --Carwil 20:49, 26 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Agree with CarwilVeritas et Severitas 21:51, 28 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  1. Agree.Lukas19 19:24, 26 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Decision of the Mediation Committee[edit]

Accepted

For the Mediation Committee, ^demon[omg plz] 21:31, 26 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I can take this one. -Ste|vertigo 08:19, 28 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
  1. ^ "Referring to races by colors, such as White, Black, and Brown, tends to ob-. scure the fact that skin color and race are not the same." Frank F. Montalvo, "Surviving Race: Skin Color and the Socialization and Acculturation of Latinas," Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work, 13:3, 2004.
  2. ^ "The skin. What the skin is. Why skin colour varies. Skin problems. Look after your skin", Public Health News, 19 Jul 2004.
  3. ^ "TAN-TASTIC!; How to look good and stay skin safe.," Wales On Sunday (Cardiff, Wales), May 25, 2003, p42.
  4. ^ For extensive discussion on skin color as a metaphor for race (and not just in encounter with Japan), see Rotem Kowner, "Skin as a Metaphor: Early European Racial Views on Japan, 1548–1853," Ethnohistory 51.4 (2004) 751-778. See also, Christine Ward Gailey Politics, Colonialism and the Mutable Color of South Pacific Peoples," Transforming Anthropology 5.1&2 (1994). On historical antecedents during the European medieval period, see James H. Dee, "Black Odysseus, White Caesar: When Did 'White People' Become 'White,'?" The Classical Journal, Vol. 99, No. 2. (Dec., 2003 - Jan., 2004), p. 162ff.
  5. ^ Gregory Jay, [Who Invented White People? http://www.uwm.edu/~gjay/Whiteness/Whitenesstalk.html], 1998.
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