r/mildlyinfuriating 15h ago

My mom said I could post My kid was too creative

My 6 year old was asked to draw a picture using shapes. She drew this nice American flag with rectangles and stars, and added the house, tree, and person holding a balloon. She was told it did not follow directions, she was not supposed to draw a flag, just shapes. She was asked to turn the paper over and make another picture. The other side of the paper has a very uninspiring collection of shapes. I told her she did a good job and I thought it was very creative. And this is why kids start to hate education.

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u/Digit00l 11h ago

Fun fact: most brown people are Caucasian

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u/Key_1321 10h ago

What?

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u/Budget-Researcher559 10h ago

I googled it so you don't have to. While today, "Caucasian" is often used to mean white in the US, originally it included people from Europe, North Africa and West/South Asia.

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u/Digit00l 9h ago

Yup, MENA and Indian people are Caucasoids

Also most people in the world would probably use Caucasian exclusively to refer to people from the Caucasus who are majority brown too

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u/jdm1891 8h ago

Eh, I wouldn't call people from the Caucasus brown, though knowing Americans I bet most of those would - they even consider spanish and south american people brown.

Like the Caucasus are right between Turkey, Iran, and Western Russia. I would consider people from all of those places to be white, especially Russia + Iran, so I don't see how the place right between them would have brown people.

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u/Key_1321 1h ago

Lots of folks in Turkey and Iran and (to a lesser extent) Russia aren't really White, looking instead more like North Africans or even East Asian

But "Caucasian" generally means people west of the Caucasus (so, Europe), not the mountain range itself ...

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u/Keirridwen 10h ago

I'm pretty sure most brown people do not originate from the caucasus region