(December 15, 2015 at 8:27 am)Homeless Nutter Wrote:(December 15, 2015 at 8:13 am)paulpablo Wrote: I agree with pretty much all this, but this is exactly why it makes no sense to me why people of colour would be more polite than coloured. It still puts most non whites into one group, although I don't think anyone used the term for Far East Asian people ever.
As far as I can see - "colored" and "of color" mean the same thing - "not white" (which is funny, since white is as much a color as black is). The only difference is the history of the words, since "people of color" probably wasn't used as much, back in the days of unashamed racism. Still - I don't think it makes much practical difference and personally I never seem to find the need for such a category anyway.
Technically white is much more coloured than black since black is a shade and white is a mix of many colours but black people aren't technically black anyway.
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