Re: "Aryans" (was Re: query: distorted languages?)

On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Raymond Brown wrote:

> It reminds me of the absurdities one came across in South Africa in the
> days of apartheid where, e.g. the Chinese of Port Elizabeth were certainly
> non-white and classified as 'Asian' (tho being as African as any
> Afrikaaner), whereas the Japanese, with whom one traded, were classified as
> "honorary whites".
There's even greater stupidity from that era.  My father was offered a
post at GM South Africa.  He turned it down because he was told that he
needn't worry about Apartheid since he and his family would be classified
as "honorary whites" because he was a US citizen working there for GM...