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mysterybasil t1_it4zl82 wrote

If you ever want to publish this, don't make Asian people yellow and Indian people red.

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mynewnameonhere t1_it64uv0 wrote

Why? It drives me nuts when people go out of their way to mix up the colors. Everyone knows what they should be. Everyone knows why you didn’t make them that. It’s unnecessarily confusing. So why not just do it? If the color of a dot on a map offends you, you need to grow a fucking backbone.

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mysterybasil t1_it6yihe wrote

Because it offends people. It may be unreasonable, but it means that some people will be turned off from the message. Some will take it as a sign that you aren't particularly sophisticated around issues of race.

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TheBravadoBoy t1_it6hk1e wrote

I’ve read so many maps with different colors for race. They’re not confusing. It’s 5 values. Are you trolling? Good luck when you see a map with a color gradient

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mynewnameonhere t1_it6oo8g wrote

Are you trolling? A map where white=brown, black=red, asian=white, Native American=yellow, and Indian=blue is objectively more difficult to read. You have to either study and memorize the whole key, which is completely random, or continuously refer back and forth to the map and key every time you want to know what something is. There is no other way. And then you want to mix up the colors every time?

In comparison, if you use white=white, black=black, Asian=yellow, Native American=red, and Indian=brown, everyone instantly knows what everything is. You don’t even need a key. It’s a universal language that’s immediately understood by everyone and it’s a standard used across every visual representation of race.

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mysterybasil t1_it7g7zc wrote

I don't think many Asian people really want to be called yellow, regardless of whether it makes it easier to read a map.

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