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re: Do you say "Black" or "African American"?
Posted on 5/30/14 at 4:39 pm to Ace Midnight
Posted on 5/30/14 at 4:39 pm to Ace Midnight
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The problem is - the races "were" Mongoloid, Caucasoid and Negoid. Well - times changed and the connotations of those words changed.
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Negroid/Negro is just WAAYYYY too close to another word which has been deemed wholly unacceptable - especially so for white people in the late 20th/early 21st century.
Made that mistake in high school after learning about the three major race terms. It got uncomfortable very quickly...
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