Re: How do I get a coloured name?
 

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On a related note, I really hate the term "African American", it only works in the US. What exactly do Americans call blacks outside the US? African-English? African-French? It's stupid and pretty insular.

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Its not stupid if the people they are referring to are Americans that are of African descent. That goooey organ in your head, use it. [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]

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Yet almost nobody in the U.S. ever calls people Irish-Americans, German-Americans, etc.

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Negroid is a race, Irish and German are nationalities. Did you really not understand that?

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Then why don't you call them Negroid-Americans?

Re: How do I get a coloured name?
 

Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, Scandanavian, African... Each is a rce that has defining physical characteristics. Where do you draw the line? American-Anglo-Saxon?

Re: How do I get a coloured name?
 

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Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, Scandanavian, African... Each is a rce that has defining physical characteristics. Where do you draw the line? American-Anglo-Saxon?

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That's pretty much my point, regardless of how well I got it across.

Re: How do I get a coloured name?
 

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Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, Scandanavian, African... Each is a rce that has defining physical characteristics. Where do you draw the line? American-Anglo-Saxon?

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NO! There are 3 "races". Caucasion, Negroid and Mongaloid! Theres line!

Re: How do I get a coloured name?
 

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Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, Scandanavian, African... Each is a rce that has defining physical characteristics. Where do you draw the line? American-Anglo-Saxon?

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NO! There are 3 "races". Caucasion, Negroid and Mongaloid! Theres line!

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If I were you, I would stop while I was behind.

Re: How do I get a coloured name?
 

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Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, Scandanavian, African... Each is a rce that has defining physical characteristics. Where do you draw the line? American-Anglo-Saxon?

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NO! There are 3 "races". Caucasion, Negroid and Mongaloid! Theres line!

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If I were you, I would stop while I was behind.

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You got it champ, you stay here and argue semantics and I'll go drink myself into an oblivion.

Re: How do I get a coloured name?
 

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Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, Scandanavian, African... Each is a rce that has defining physical characteristics. Where do you draw the line? American-Anglo-Saxon?

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NO! There are 3 "races". Caucasion, Negroid and Mongaloid! Theres line!

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It's ironic that if you call a black person (or whatever PC term is in vogue) a "Negroid", it would likely be viewed as an insult. Refer to Asian-Americans as "mongoloids" and you will feel the wrath of the PC nazis. But call a white person a "Caucasian" and it is perfectly acceptable (and is even listed that way on many forms).

It's also odd that someone who's ancestors may have come to America in say 1750 would be referred to as "African-American" while someone who's ancestors are say from Europe in 1920 is simply an American. If I were black, I'm quite sure that I would find the term "African-American" the most demeaning of all terms for my race.

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no, you didnt make that joke first hotpants, I did [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]). Besides, mines funnier because I used black names hehehe