Re: Racial Classification & credit line

Andreas Johansson wrote:

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>>>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!
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>>    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).
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>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.
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Really?  To me, Aborigines and Africans both count as black.  I'm not
sure about Asians, though.  Basically, a person is Black if he has a
dark skin colour, probably.

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