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Re: racist vs racialist?

From:Doug Dee <amateurlinguist@...>
Date:Wednesday, December 11, 2002, 0:11
In a message dated 12/10/2002 9:27:05 AM Eastern Standard Time,
kesuari@YAHOO.COM.AU writes:


> Is there a better term than 'White' to describe us erm... White people? > We aren't very white (you'd be better off calling me red (even during > Winter II; it's not sunburn :P)),
I'm told that the Australian aborigines call (or used to call) people of European extraction "red." (Perhaps a lot of them got sunburned.) Can you confirm that?

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