On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > you used the greek word for earth. i actually find the dutch practise of > differentiating between people who are "autochtoon" and "allochtoon" [1] > more offensive than differentiating between skin colours. i don't know > why... perhaps because a skin colour is innate and doesn't really relate > to your connection to a country, but allochthonous while no less factual > than "brown" seems to imply that you can never really be part of that > country.
Are Surinamese living in the Netherlands considered Allochtoon or Autochtoon? > that said, the netherlands does FAR better than pretty much any other > country (including the US) at having non-indigenous ethnic minorities > represented in parliament [2], with a share almost as much as their > share in the population (8% vs 11%; the US is 16% vs 31%; france is a > pitiful, racist, 0.4% vs 12%). The US does suck at representation of ethnic minorities. Do you happen to have the numbers for Canada and the UK? Thaths -- "I saw this in a movie about a bus that had to SPEED around a city, keeping its SPEED over fifty, and if its SPEED dropped, it would explode. I think it was called, 'The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down'." -- Homer J. Simpson
