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I'm also fine with Chipperpip's solution of renaming it to "caucasian".
I was going to go ahead, but looking it up the term is apparently fairly outdated nowadays, since it's based on incorrect theories (kind of like calling Native Americans "Indians" because Columbus mistook what continent he landed on), so I'll probably leave it as-is. This also lets us avoid any annoying nitpicky arguments involving the Caucasus mountain range.
I was going to go ahead, but looking it up the term is apparently fairly outdated nowadays, since it's based on incorrect theories (kind of like calling Native Americans "Indians" because Columbus mistook what continent he landed on), so I'll probably leave it as-is. This also lets us avoid any annoying nitpicky arguments involving the Caucasus mountain range.
At the end of the day, though race is a flawed and arbitrary metric, it’s still useful for describing relationships with others. Light-skinned Europeans and their light-skinned descendants are “white” relative to everyone else. That’s just how it is, and instead of running away from their whiteness we just need to accept it and tag them accordingly so those of us into WOC can look at who we want.
I'm not going to argue the ethics of having race tags, however to put nationality tags on top of that is just ridiculous to me. There's a limited number of tags you can have and now it seems that by default two ethnicity tags are in every pic. This is just useless waste of space
The 10-tag limit is indeed not enough, maybe we can increase it to 20 or even remove the limit (but avoid malicious additions
Tags applied to the model as a whole don't count towards the tag limit on individual pics; that's one of their main features.
I'm not going to argue the ethics of having race tags, however to put nationality tags on top of that is just ridiculous to me. There's a limited number of tags you can have and now it seems that by default two ethnicity tags are in every pic. This is just useless waste of space
I'm seeing incorrect assumptions already. Someone made an ethnicity/nationality assignment based on a married name. Example A: Carrie Goforth-Wojciechowski
Do you know how many North American people have "Polish" last names? This is going to turn into an amateur genealogy project.
The 10-tag limit is indeed not enough, maybe we can increase it to 20 or even remove the limit (but avoid malicious additions
There is a point where too many tags actually potentially lowers the quality of tagging. I can’t say what that number is, and we’d need to see examples of where people thought more tags would have been beneficial.
As to the original topic of the thread, ethnicity and nationality labelling can get messy. Consider a white South African can be labelled African, while a black European can be labelled European, but people would likely throw a fit if a white person born and raised in Singapore being called Asian. Also should we be labelling a French person as European or just leave out the adjective? Then further, is a Spanish person considered Latin and what about a Brazilian of Japanese descent?
While I won’t deny that the bodybuilding community (especially in this case female bodybuilders) is sadly overwhelmingly white, I think it’s ridiculous to accept whiteness as the default. That’s a terrible thing to do and has been an aspect of discrimination in the past.