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re: Do you say "Black" or "African American"?
Posted on 5/31/14 at 8:05 pm to Easy
Posted on 5/31/14 at 8:05 pm to Easy
quote:You do understand that 'African American' isn't a race, right?
Then what race do you call Asians?
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The world population can be divided into 4 major races, namely white/Caucasian, Mongoloid/Asian, Negroid/Black, and Australoid. This is based on a racial classification made by Carleton S. Coon in 1962. There is no universally accepted classification for “race”, however, and its use has been under fire over the last few decades. The United Nations, in a 1950 statement, opted to “drop the term ‘race’ altogether and speak of “ethnic groups”. In this case, there are more than 5,000 ethnic groups in the world, according to a 1998 study published in the Scientific American.
Posted on 5/31/14 at 11:54 pm to L.A.
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You do understand that 'African American' isn't a race, right?
Technically it is listed as a race on the US census. Either way the same principle applies. How can whites be upset that black people that have never been to Africa might call themselves African American and at the same time call people that have never been to Asia, Asians? It's racist. Why the frick should you care anyway?
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