Re: CHAT: American Racism [was: Star Wars]

Dans un courrier dat=E9 du 25/05/99 17:06:52  , vous avez =E9crit :

> > Would that be 'ethnic dirtying'? *irony*Here in the US, I always have to
>  > fill out forms and mark my race as Caucasian,=20
African-American-not-Latino,
>  > Latino, Native American, or Asian-Pacific Islander. I fall into three o=
f
> =20
>  Heh.  I check virtually everything, myself.  When they complain, I tell
>  'em that this is what the truth is.  Then they take one look at me and
>  decide that I'm "really" white, because that's how I look to them.
>  (Under the old South African racial code, though, I would have been
>  "mixed" or "coloured".)
> =20
In France it is forbidden to require people to tell their racial or religiou=
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origin in any forms. I guess these American forms are used for "affirmative=20
action" procedure ? =20

Mathias