Re: OT Academia (was Re: Dr. Gunn)
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, July 9, 2002, 20:09 |
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On Tue, 9 Jul 2002 15:30:08 EDT J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> writes:
> I will go so far to say that the idea of a "White Race" is
> _perhaps_ a
> myth. And one that should probably be discarded.
> Do "of European ancestry" or "Eurogen" sound like reasonable
> alternatives
> in order to describe ancestral origins/biocultural background
> (instead of
> so-call "racial categories")?
> Hanuman Zhang, Sinogen and sympathetic supporter of the Beige Race
> Liberation
> Front and their tongue-firmly-in-cheek struggle to have a
> "Beige/Multi-Racial" category in/on US census polls and all other
> public documents
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Hmm... i like "-gen"... it's a nice suffix.
It reminds me of the David Brin "Uplift" science-fiction novels where the
multi-species clan founded by Humans, and including Neo-Dolphins,
Neo-Chimpanzees, and possibly others is known as the "Terragens".
-Stephen (Steg)
"rest / rest and listen / rest and listen and learn, creideiki /
for the startide rises in the currents of the dark /
and we have waited long for what must be..."
~ _startide rising_ by david brin