Re: LOTR credit line

One of the weirdest experiences I had in New Zealand was riding along a road
in Tauranga last January, and overheard a couple of adolescent girls saying,
in voices obviously meant to be heard, that New Zealand should be only for
the Whites.

I looked at my well-tanned mahogany-toned arms, and thought, yes, I'm a
blackfella, as far as those dopes are concerned.  Of course, nearly all the
ancestors I have been able to track, came from Ol' Blighty, etc.

As I say, weird!

Wesley Parish

On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 13:13, you wrote:
> Quoting J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...>:
> >     The 1st coupla months I was in a small sad lil Texas elementary
> > school - in the mid1960's - I was classified as "White." They only had
> > "White", "Negroid," and "Latinate" classifications at this particular
> > point in educational
> > history in this cultural and ethnic backwoods.
> >     So I was a "honourary White" for awhile, but sure wasn't a "model
> > Asian",
> > hehe...
>
> "Honorary white"? LOL!
>
> Well, that's what happens when you have too few racial categories. I've
> always found the American tendency to classify everyone as "black" or
> "white" strange - by my terms, blacks and whites together make up well less
> than half of humanity. And "Latinate" as a _race_? LOL ...
>
> Another victim of lacking racial classification scheme was an Iranian guy I
> used to know; he had some fairly terrible views about black people, so
> imagine his discomfort at coming to Sweden and realize that to many Swedish
> racists, _he_ is black!
>
>                                                        Andreas
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Wesley Parish
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