It was surprising that options to answer a respondent's race in a census started in British in 1776 were just only three; White, Black or Mulatto. But now people who live in USA have more than 50 choices. I think those choices is more natural than the British ones at that time.
The another way to decide the person's race is to look at the figure of his or her foot. These two criteria are so simple that they spread over at least western societies. But race is not so easy to decide. Even if having the same color skin, people must have different cultures.
We have to forget the concept of race in order to know a person's true face.
I only spoke about the US in all the examples as I never mentioned Britain!
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