Re: LOTR credit line

--- Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> 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
Well the ethnic Chinese classify *eachother* as
"black" or "white" based on pigmintation.  I was
frequently "complimented" for being so white (all the
while trying to get some reasonable tan without
burning!).

My students were quite astounded when they learned
that I concidered my shade of white to be unhealthy
and unattractive looking.

Adam


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