On Wednesday 28 Mar 2012 3:07:13 pm ashok _ wrote: > interesting. i still remember my dear grandmother (unfortunately > passed on now) asking me if i "had any negro friends" (note: the terms > negro was not said in a derogatory way, but quaint english use... but > the idea of inferiority was perhaps there ) .
Its called linguistic fractal recursivity. The colonized takes on the attitudes of the coloniser even while referring to a sub group among his own. I apologize if I have posted this before on Silk. In the 1960s my parents bought a (45 RPM) gramophone record of Nursery Rhymes for their darling babies. Among many. It featured one particular nursery rhyme that I have uploaded to YouTube "Ten Little Nigger Boys" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkb4rP6Jq1Q shiv
