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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [QB] Why are you guys still arguing about this?? I thought it was made clear that Indians like Mindy Kaling and her brother would also be called 'black' or rather [i]kalu[/i] in their ancestral country of India. In America the only reason they call themselves "brown" because 'black' is typically reserved for those of African descent yet their complexions are no different from say Nigerians. These labels ARE completely arbitrary and are based solely on [i]relation[/i] to others. I think it was in 1812 that U.S. laws began implementing the labels 'white' and 'black' starting in Virginia because of the fact that there were black peoples, most but not all of whom were slaves, and had to be distinguished from the white slaves that also existed at the time. In Europe there was no label of "white" for the same obvious reason why there was no label of "black" in Africa. The label of one depended on the other. The label of "brown" is used today as a 'medium' between these two extremes, but even that fails to convey what a person's complexion truly looks like as the example of the Kaling siblings. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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