@bronze @nobullyplz @toiletpaper The world's a complex place and way smaller than when we started qualifying people. At this point it's been 30 years since mass worldwide immigration began to really hit the US, and our view of what people are really hasn't been brought up to date.

Even Central Asia is a complete mess. You have Kazakhs that look typically "Asian" to the north of Tajiks that are very white-presenting. Kazakhstan likes to tether itself to Europe geopolitically while Tajikistan is undoubtedly in Asia. That's not even getting into if a Kalmyk moved here, is he Asian because he's of Mongolian heritage, or European because his family's been west of the Urals and north of the Caucusus for 300+ years? Why do we consider someone from Argentina, a borderline first world country that's considered Hispanic, less privileged than a Georgian, who comes from a dirt poor husk of a country full of what we would call white people?

I don't have a good answer for how to fix it but the status quo isn't working.