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[QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness,: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Antalas: [qb] No "black" usually refers to people from sub-saharan africa who tend to share many physical traits in common and tend to form their own genetic clusters. the label "black" is like "european" "east asian". Many people in india are dark skinned and still aren't black nor related to black africans and they are genetically closer to north europeans than people like west or central africans. [/qb][/QUOTE]"Black" is a [b]COLOR[/b] label as in the color black. It has nothing to do with ancestry! Here are a couple of definitions: From [URL=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/black]Merriam-Webster[/URL] [i] 2. Black or less commonly black a: of or relating to any of various population groups of especially African ancestry often considered as having dark pigmentation of the skin but in fact having a wide range of skin colors[/i] From [URL=https://www.dictionary.com/browse/black]Dictionary.com[/URL] [i] 1. a. relating or belonging to any of the various human populations characterized by dark skin pigmentation, specifically the dark-skinned peoples of Africa, Oceania, and Australia.[/i] Thus the Andamanese people I posted are 'black' due to their dark skin color despite not being African. [/QUOTE]You are making little sense here You say "Black is a [b]COLOR[/b] label as in the color black. It has nothing to do with ancestry!" yet the very definition you use lists people of geographic regions it does not just say " a person of dark skin pigmentation" the very definition says "specifically the dark-skinned peoples of Africa" And they add "Oceania, and Australia." Why? because some of them specifically resemble Africans to an extent beyond just dark skin ! No examples are even necessary "dark skinned" is a concept so simple and self evident there is no need for examples apart from the use of the word black in a sentence to show it's grammatical context. You are playing games here. You know full well East Indians or Pakistanis in America don't identify as black people yet many are as dark as average African American or darker than someone like LL Cool J "Black" in Americas has a strong connotation for someone with afro hair or broad features as well as dark skin, stop pretending you don't know that That is American word usage like it or not and that is why they say in the dictionary "specifically the dark-skinned peoples of Africa" and in effect intend >> specifically the dark-skinned peoples of Africa and people who look like similar to them - obviously not just in skin tone alone Are they going to spell it out in detail No, it's a wink wink definition (to avoid problems) Every American knows what it is intended to mean and they give us the hint by referring to Africa That is why the definition in Webster's dictionary of black does not simply say [b]black[/b] - a person or people with dark skin . [/QB][/QUOTE]
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