An interesting question. Do you think Hispanics from Latin America that are 100% European extract are really treated differently than those from Spain or Portugal directly? Hispanic as we are using it is a hard thing to define.
Okay. But in other states, pizzas are not referred to as "pizza pies" ... just as pizzas.
Caucasian is too hard to spell for many, more I’d think. But African American and Latino are new names for groups of people that we used to group using other, non-offensive (?) terms. So why has no one come up with a better word than “white” for what are mostly European descendants? C’mon, white is the color of snow and I’ve yet to see even an albino who’s that white. Anyone have any ideas? Not that it matters but in our politically correct, offend no one times we live in, I don’t always feel adequately described by the term “white”. It just sounds too vanilla to me!
Yes, I've heard that before. Of course, all the Spanish names coming out of Mexico don't exactly sound Incan, Aztec, or from the other civilizations that were there before Spain arrived, now do they?
Since I think all people should be called what they want to be called--thus me using the term "Latinx" above since I heard that's what some of them prefer--what term would you like?Caucasian is too hard to spell for many, more I’d think. But African American and Latino are new names for groups of people that we used to group using other, non-offensive (?) terms. So why has no one come up with a better word than “white” for what are mostly European descendants? C’mon, white is the color of snow and I’ve yet to see even an albino who’s that white. Anyone have any ideas? Not that it matters but in our politically correct, offend no one times we live in, I don’t always feel adequately described by the term “white”. It just sounds too vanilla to me!
Well, since you're asking, how about if you just call ME human? I'd also be pretty okay if that were a choice too on those forms where one must select their "race". I think that's why life is so hard, maybe. The human race is all caught up in the rat race!
Homosapiens, at least since agriculture was invented and the relatively egalitarian hunter/gatherer way of life was left behind, pretty much always been caught up in the rat race; therefore the efforts to try to make things more equal again, efforts which can indeed make life seem hard. Ah, but be careful: finding everything hard can either be a sign that things have been too easy for you before or that you're just getting too old to change. And as with other situations, you yourself can decide that you'll make an effort to learn to get used to or live with situations you find too hard or give up; only you can decide that.Well, since you're asking, how about if you just call ME human? I'd also be pretty okay if that were a choice too on those forms where one must select their "race". I think that's why life is so hard, maybe. The human race is all caught up in the rat race!
The lower income woman's wages may stay the same but her costs are going to increase with every child and her kids aren't going to escape poverty if she can't put them through college. I was a minimum wage mother and could see that if I was having trouble paying for one child's food, clothing, school fees etc, having a new baby to provide for wouldn't help. I was married again by the time he was ready for college, but it still took almost my entire income to put him through school. Fortunately my husband earned enough as a USAF sgt to pay for our rent and food for four years while I did that.
I agree. I think we wont be able to stop our race problems until we quit dividing people according to "race." Discussions like this only point out how unscientific and pointless our definitions of each race are. In reality almost all of us are, "mixed race" unless we are pure African. The last I heard from anthropologists that's where humans started and people just changed color to suit the climate as they moved north, west and east. So if American's are "browning" so be it. Less skin cancer among the blue-whites such as myself.
" I think we wont be able to stop our race problems until we quit dividing people according to "race." Discussions like this only point out how unscientific and pointless our definitions of each race are." I do agree with that. Unfortunately, it isn't just us "ordinary, everyday" citizen who should quit dividing people according to race, it's those in power, not just those who have been elected but the non-famous who are in power--either they or their representatives are in attendance at Davos every year--who will keep doing it since it keeps them in power. Even those who are not in power but would like to be or approve of those who are in power. For example, I was talking to someone who works in the financial industry a few years back and he made a comment about how the global stock market was doing (not well at that point) and how what fixes things with the stock market is when the U.S., the "first world", and the northern European countries are more in control. So there you go again with that dog whistling of how important "race" is.
I'ma start up a new thing, 4th world countries. We can all be human and we can all getta long. You wanna be a part of such a world or you wanna be apart from such a world? Your choice cuz you're welcome to do either. I'm doing what I can to make a better world even if it's only in my imagination. What about the second worlds? Who or where are they? I hear all time about first world this, third world that but second world never gets a mention. What's up with that? Semantics and pedantics, will they ever get along?
I'm in! When I went for my Covid shot they gave me a form to fill out and under the race question I checked "unknown," which must have bewildered the nurse because as I said, I am blue-white.
Talking the talk isn't the same as walking the walk.
Ask a rich person; they know. (Of course, you most likely won't get a straight answer out of them, but they know.)
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I don't know people that are any colors that match these!
A rich person? I'm a rich person myself but that depends on how one defines "riches". Were you speaking of money? Then there are many "rich" people of many ethnicities. Which "rich" ethnic person would you think best to ask?
