One hilarious example I plan is to have a Latin American make an "anthropology of European races" and diagram the different distinctions of European peoples, which leads to great controversy as he lumps Frenchmen with Spaniards, Italians and Romanians, sees Britons (particularly English and Scots) as a mixed race of Germans and Celts, and considers Ashkenazi Jews to be another subgroup of Germanic peoples.
But all You Say Is true i don't get from where come the hilarity
 
the original "LImpieza de sangre" (purity of blood) was used in Spain to avoid intermarriage with those who had Jewish blood - a lot of conversos (Jews who became Catholics) were given distinctive last names. A little later this was also done with Moroscos - Muslim converts to Catholicism when they Muslims were kicked out of Spain.
 
But all You Say Is true i don't get from where come the hilarity
From the European's reactions to such a racial analysis so different from their own, especially when the French think of themselves as "Aryans", the British see themselves as pure Anglo-Saxon and view being seen as part-Celtic as dehumanizing, and of course, the rampant anti-Semitism making Europeans refuse to see Jews as white, much less Germanic.

It's dark humour in some way.
 
The problem isn't necessarily the "undisputed" cases, though - it's that, especially as people conquer each other, people have sex. Sex makes babies, who are neither obviously one or the other. Now one way of socially classfying the "edge cases" is the infamous one drop rule, but history shows that this is not always what is done. Not to mention that legal categories of races tend to be hard to sustain long term in none hypodescent societies - as an ethnic Filipino of mixed descent, depending on the categorization scheme I could be as white as Mariano Rajoy or as Asian as Lee Kwan Yew.
 
The problem isn't necessarily the "undisputed" cases, though - it's that, especially as people conquer each other, people have sex. Sex makes babies, who are neither obviously one or the other. Now one way of socially classfying the "edge cases" is the infamous one drop rule, but history shows that this is not always what is done. Not to mention that legal categories of races tend to be hard to sustain long term in none hypodescent societies - as an ethnic Filipino of mixed descent, depending on the categorization scheme I could be as white as Mariano Rajoy or as Asian as Lee Kwan Yew.
I'm support tour Point I as american meztice could be clasified as white as Mariano Rajoy, could grow beard a importante distntion in América where most natives can't, as asian as i have asian eyelids, or Indian metis as I'm poor and not connected to the traditional elites
 
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