Re: "Whiteness" Re: Obseneties

On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Raymond Brown wrote:

> >>or a American-European?
>
> Eh? How in the name of all logic can someone be an American European???  Am
> I missing something, or is that not a fairly large pond between America &
> Europe?  Aren't they different places.
The term I usually hear is Euro-American or European-American, making it
closer to other "racial" names like African-American, Asian-American, etc.

These types of terms are, IMHO, an utter waste of time.  Euphamisms to
avoid other equally ridiculous names.

> Er - white = American-European?  Don't think the upholders of Apartheid in
> the old South Africa (now, thankfully, a thing of history) would quite go
> along with that.  Afrikaaners considered themselves 'white', but certainly
> not American-European (whatever that may mean).
Of course not, they aren't in America.  But in the US, white =
European-American.

> And what has either being American or being European got to do with whiteness?
Nada.  And being black has nothing to do with being African, either.
Everybody seems to lump people of African and Australian heritages into
one non-sensical category.  My old neighbor used to get quite upset about
that.

Marcus