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[QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness,: [QB] The terms "white" and "black" are virtually unavoidable in social interactions But if you avoid them in anthropological discussion it eliminates many problems "dark skinned" and "light skinned" are also subjective but with much less ambiguity and political implications than "white" or "black" (teams) therefore "dark skinned" and "light skinned" are better to use in more scientific discussions compared to white or black (if we must even talk about skin) but people want to make it political so they will insist on declaring people by these labels if it was not political people would use the actual color their eyes see > brown The fact that "black" is used in place of the usually more accurate "brown" is another unmistakable hint that more that color is being discussed So why do people insist on white or black? because we love racial categorization, some of us. Someone can't say race doesn't exist and then start talking about "black and "white" when the vast majority of people called black are brown and those called white don't resemble the color of snow or sugar either A lot of children learn colors by crayon colors. I recall a little girl becoming very confused as her African America father tried to explained he was black not brown while she was looking at him and her eyes were telling her brown "White" and "Black" are clearly racial terms with a history to go with them and for the reasons above, much as some people would like to pretend they aren't (when convenient), they are [/QB][/QUOTE]
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