"White" is a reference to a species whereas Italian is a subspecies. Preferring your more specific label to differentiate you from all the rest makes sense.
You can literally tell the difference between mongoloid, negroid, and caucusoid skulls once you've been taught, just like you can tell a man from a man based on bones. The only reason we stopped using it was because after WW2 and eugenics it became "wacist" to even acknowledge biological race instead of "social race."
"White" is a reference to a species whereas Italian is a subspecies. Preferring your more specific label to differentiate you from all the rest makes sense.
White is a species. There's about 4 distinct species of humans:
Everything else is a hybrid and/or subspecies more-or-less.
You can literally tell the difference between mongoloid, negroid, and caucusoid skulls once you've been taught, just like you can tell a man from a man based on bones. The only reason we stopped using it was because after WW2 and eugenics it became "wacist" to even acknowledge biological race instead of "social race."
Source?