Re: Racial Classification & credit line
| From: | Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 1, 2004, 14:09 |
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Quoting J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...>:
> In a message dated 2004:01:01 12:14:25 AM, andjo@FREE.FR writes:
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> >"Latinate" as a _race_? LOL ...
>
> Earlier in this century & as late as the early 1960's in the US South,
> it
> was "Mediterranean"!
Immediately, that makes more sense to me, because people from the
Mediterranean basin do tend to look similar, to my foreign eyes; much more
similar than Latin Americans, at any rate. But I guess it was used to include
Latin Americans, leaving it even just as pointless and even more opaque?
> >Another victim of lacking racial classification scheme was an Iranian guy
> >I used to know; he had some fairly terrible views about black people, so
> >imagine his discomfort at coming to Sweden and realize that to many Swedish
> >racists, _he_ is black!
>
> I have an Aussie friend with a very similar identity problem. He never
> thought much of African-Americans, but when he moved to Sydney he found
> himself
> being labelled Black even tho' he is only "partly Abo" (1/2).
I was told as a kid that you was supposed to use "black" for Negroes, with the
result I cannot think of Australian Aboriginals (or Veddas or other dark-
skinned peoples of southern Asia) as "black". I tend to exclude Khoisan, too.
Andreas
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