Whites

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racial group social group

Whites are a racial group of people typically characterized by light skin tones and European ancestry.

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Observed surface forms (2)

Surface form	Occurrences
White American	6
White Americans	2

Statements (58)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	racial group ⓘ social group ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Caucasians ⓘ White people NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasBeenAssociatedWith	concept of whiteness ⓘ white privilege ⓘ white supremacy ideologies ⓘ
hasBeenClassifiedBy	Australian Census NERFINISHED ⓘ Canadian Census NERFINISHED ⓘ European national censuses NERFINISHED ⓘ New Zealand Census NERFINISHED ⓘ United States Census NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasCharacteristic	light skin tones ⓘ
hasDiverseReligions	Christianity NERFINISHED ⓘ Islam NERFINISHED ⓘ Judaism NERFINISHED ⓘ other religions ⓘ secularism ⓘ
hasHistoricalOriginIn	Europe NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasHistoricalRoleIn	Atlantic slave trade ⓘ European colonialism ⓘ development of modern nation-states in Europe ⓘ
hasLinguisticDiversity	Indo-European languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Uralic languages NERFINISHED ⓘ other language families ⓘ
hasPopulationIn	Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ Europe NERFINISHED ⓘ New Zealand NERFINISHED ⓘ North America NERFINISHED ⓘ South America NERFINISHED ⓘ Southern Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ parts of Central Asia ⓘ parts of the Middle East ⓘ
hasSubgroup	Anglo-Americans NERFINISHED ⓘ Ashkenazi Jews NERFINISHED ⓘ French people ⓘ German people ⓘ Greek people ⓘ Irish people ⓘ Italian people NERFINISHED ⓘ Scandinavian peoples NERFINISHED ⓘ Slavic peoples NERFINISHED ⓘ Spanish people ⓘ many other European ethnic groups ⓘ
hasTypicalAncestry	European ancestry ⓘ
isAssociatedWith	Christian cultural traditions ⓘ European cultures NERFINISHED ⓘ Western culture ⓘ
isConsidered	a socially constructed category rather than a strictly biological one ⓘ
isDefinedBy	cultural classifications of race ⓘ historical classifications of race ⓘ legal classifications of race ⓘ social constructs of race ⓘ
isSubjectOf	debates about race as a social construct ⓘ studies in anthropology ⓘ studies in demography ⓘ studies in history ⓘ studies in sociology ⓘ

Referenced by (9)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Welsh Americans → demographicClassification → Whites ⓘ

this entity surface form: White Americans

Dorothy Wetzel Hunt → ethnicGroup → Whites ⓘ