On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 01:33:59PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > The autochthonous population prefers the term "Native American" --
Pshaw, just the second-recent ones to cross the Bering strait. Probably did a little holocausting of their own of the pre-Clovis guys, and now are acting all hoity-toity. (Nevermind we're all Africans, and if you way back it's arguable we're at all terrestrian. No asparagus on Mars, or marigolds in lunar anorthosite, but ejecta crosscontamination makes things more than a bit muddled way back). > the terms "Red" for such people and "Yellow" for East Asians are now > considered impolite (and besides, factually wrong given what colors > those terms usually mean), though for whatever reason "Black" is > still considered polite for discussing people of African descent (who > are not actually not what one would call "Black" in any other > context). "White" is also still polite, although I am sort of a medium > beige and not anything like the shade of paper, and even people who > produce only pheomelanin and no eumelanin (colloquially "redheads" > though the color of their hair is more orange than red) are more pink > than white in shade. I try not to discriminate against mammals. > My friends (both those with lots of melanin, and the melanin deficient > like myself) have taken to using the term "Brown" when speaking > ironically in the voice of bigots -- as in "Oh my God! The Supreme > Court is going to allow prisoners at Guantanamo to have access to the > courts! What horror is next, allowing brown people to vote?" -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
