White Guy Self-Identifies as Filipino Woman

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In forensic anthropology, they use 3 different types of racial groups:

Caucasoid
Negroid
Mongoloid

And it's much more about bone structure than skin color. Arabs fall under Caucasoid, for example. Central/South Americans are usually either caucasoid or mongoloid depending on how much their ancestry came from the natives, who were mongoloid, vs the europeans, who were caucasoid.

They use this to determine a person's race when they find their skeletal remains but don't have an identity.

Anyway, interesting bit of info. I don't think race is entirely a social construct. People evolved differently depending on their location in the world.

Yes, I'm aware of those classifications. Speaking from sociopolitical and historical context (as I generally do, since it's what I know best), these sorts of classifications were coined in an era when people used racial biology in order to ensure white dominance over blacks and immigrants; to argue that they are genetically inferior and must be ruled over by the superior white man. You mention that they are used in forensic anthropology; it should be noted that they are only used in forensic anthropology and nowhere else. But when interracial relationships cause these bone structures to be more difficult to categorize, what then? This system still falls victim to the categorization of race that society has put upon itself, rather than it being a natural sort of thing.

Calling these classification of race would be to misrepresent what race has represented in the course of human history. Society does not give a shit about bone structure. A light-skinned Brazilian may be seen as white while a darker skinned Brazilian may be seen as something else (black, hispanic, etc). Whether they are classified by anthropologists as "Caucasoid" or not does not matter.