Rainbow
Pearl Clutcher
Where salt is in the air and sand is at my feet...
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Post by Rainbow on Jun 29, 2014 11:15:59 GMT
I'm not "white" technically. It doesn't offend me to be white. I call black people black, no one has ever been offended by that. I would call an Indian person Indian or Asian and Asian first though before I called them brown or some other color. |
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Post by lbp on Jun 29, 2014 11:33:20 GMT
No, not really but I don't think I have ever heard anyone say that.
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Post by moveablefeast on Jun 29, 2014 11:51:14 GMT
The majority of our neighbors are some variety of non-white and many are immigrants. Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, black, Indian/Pakistani/other south Asian, Hispanic, Filipino, we got your melting pot right here.
We feel it is disingenuous to try "not to see race" because most of those people have a culture and heritage of which they are proud and by which they identify.
We have chosen to use basic terms - black, Asian, Hispanic, etc - as much as possible, to describe people. In our context I don't find brown to be a useful term. Too many variables in that category. They talk a lot about family heritage in school, so she is learning about where people's families come from, what languages they speak, things like that. I'm grateful for that. When I was a kid in he south we didn't have this kind of conversation and the result was a lot of lack of understanding.
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Post by Sparki on Jun 29, 2014 12:49:47 GMT
My husband, who is hispanic, has used brown to describe himself, but then in a discussion a few days ago with my mom, he says that it might be offensive depending on who used it and how. Which makes sense. I describe him as a brown person, although his skin tone is very very white, particularly in winter.
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