I don't know why, but I find the phrase 'people of colour' amusing in a "what the fuck are we really calling this concept that?!!" kind of way. Yet I do not know what other catchphrase should/could be used. As it were.
Also talking in your LJ about it weirds me out because apparently white people aren't allowed to talk about skin colour at the risk of sounding like horrific wipe-out-all-different-skin-tone type Nazis.
But I dunno. I don't know what it's like in Americaland, but I don't come across a lot of people who aren't white in my day to day existence. I live in the middle class type area of Bristol and my university course has one darker-than-white skinned person on it, and then at work I'm, again, about one in ten customers (and over half of all statistics are made up!) is black or Asian? I guess?
But then, maybe I do not think about it because I am the majority?
But isn't there that gun-toting dude in BTVS who is black? The one who is friends with Riley?
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Date: 2007-01-05 08:58 am (UTC)Also talking in your LJ about it weirds me out because apparently white people aren't allowed to talk about skin colour at the risk of sounding like horrific wipe-out-all-different-skin-tone type Nazis.
But I dunno. I don't know what it's like in Americaland, but I don't come across a lot of people who aren't white in my day to day existence. I live in the middle class type area of Bristol and my university course has one darker-than-white skinned person on it, and then at work I'm, again, about one in ten customers (and over half of all statistics are made up!) is black or Asian? I guess?
But then, maybe I do not think about it because I am the majority?
But isn't there that gun-toting dude in BTVS who is black? The one who is friends with Riley?