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persian site:www.iafd.com

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Would be a great addition to the fantastic iafd.com site. I hope you can pass it along.

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When we finally do this, it will help you search a bit easier for what you are looking for in this regard.
It is not an urgent item on our to do list (the info is there, albeit mixed together), but it is on the list

A perfect example of why this would be a good thing is Katsumi: Ethnicity = Asian; Nationality = France

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I'll be looking forward to it and I'll spread the word. Thanks again.

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I've noticed many anomolies with ethnicity on IAFD due, I suspect, to the contributors coming from many different countries. In some of these countries the writers first language might not be English, in others the language might be the same but the understanding different.

A prime example would be Czechoslovakia which split some years ago into the Czech Republic (or some say Czechia) and Slovakia (or some say Slovak Republic).

Not being American it has always struck me how important an individuals "original" ethnicity appears to be to an American; almost it sometimes seems to the extent of a denial of being American.

Being British and from England I would give my ethnicity as English. However my country was invaded, and impregnated, by the Vikings (Scandinavian), the Normans (French) and the Anglo Saxons (German). My family tree implies that the Vikings probably never got as far west and south as my ancestors location; it is probable that there is Norman blood in my family (based upon Doomsday records); the Anglo Saxons certainly came as far north as my ancestors location (and the word England is derived from Anglo); and I most likely also have some original Celt blood in the family line as well.

So is my ethnicity English or is it Celtic/Scandinavian/French/German.

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I would consider England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales all to be nationalities (even though they could also be lumped together as United Kingdom... which I would not favor doing).

From what you've written, I suspect your ethnicity would be Caucasian.

Certainly, for the purposes of porn, your ancestry is not important to the porn consumer. More importantly, it is impossible for the IAFD, or anyone else, to determine one's ancestry from the normal sources of porn information.

Huge task, yes.
But, once we separate nationalities into their own field, most other terms we are already using are ethnicities.

Some will need to be cleaned-up.
For example, saying "Spanish" or "Mexican" (both nationalities) when one really means "Hispanic" or "Latin" (both ethnicities).
Now, if someone were Spanish, we wouldn't possibly be able to determine if their ancestry was "Moorish" or not

Sometimes, we may only know, or be able to determine, one or the other.
There will probably be many instances where we could say someone is Caucasian, Black, or Asian without knowing their nationalities.

Now, if we were to believe the porn producers, girls can be Caucasian one day, and Latina the next.
Some girls, like Dee have been cast as almost any ethnicity the producer needed (except Caucasian)

In any event, my goal (and I'm just one IAFD administrator) is to clearly separate nationalities into their own field, so that searching for what you want becomes easier.
Going back to my earlier example of Katsumi, most strokers are interested in the fact that her ethnicity is Asian. I seriously doubt that anyone is thinking French if they are looking for her (yet French is her nationality).

If there are multiple terms in a single field, what, in fact, becomes the search term? Would the order they were listed in be an issue (i.e. "French, Asian" vs. "Asian, French")?

On the other hand, I'm sure many strokers would want to perform one of the following searches:

Asian (ethnicity); Chinese (nationality)
Asian (ethnicity); Japanese (nationality)
Asian (ethnicity); American (nationality)
Caucasian (ethnicity); Czech (nationality)
Caucasian (ethnicity); English (nationality)
Caucasian (ethnicity); American (nationality)
Caucasian (ethnicity); Canadian (nationality)
Hispanic (ethnicity); Mexican (nationality)
Hispanic (ethnicity); Puerto Rican (nationality)
Jewish (ethnicity); Israeli (nationality)
Jewish (ethnicity); American (nationality)
and many more...

Bottom line: two fields will make it easier to zoom-in on what you're looking for.

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For you, I'd go with English. I mean, if we wanted to, we could all trace ourselves back to the fertile crescent, right? :)

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Trying to define ethnicities is controversial and there's not going to be a universally consistent way of labeling them.

Arabs and Asians can be Caucasian. Hispanics can be white, black, and even asian. As Paul Rodriguez, the comedian, explained: "That's because we'll fuck anyone."

Using the Katsumi example, she may be Asian to a lot of people. Other people may consider her Caucasian. IAFD happens to label her as being French/Vietnamese. That's probably as exact as it's going to get.

But it's not a fine science although these freaks might disagree (about Katja Kassin).

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I also heard on the radio today that the gene pool of the "original" British (the Celts of Ireland, Wales, Scotland and Cornwall) have their basis in the Basque peoples - which is essentially Spanish (Hispanic).

It all comes down to defining a starting point I suppose.

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But while we're being theoretical:

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