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08-07-2007, 10:21 AM | #21 | |||
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Lara, I was reading too & before Christine thanked you, I too thought your responces were good ones.
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08-07-2007, 11:07 AM | #22 | |||
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Well I have no clue what you would call it other than the 'white' people!
From the Encyclopedia Brittanica, and they call them 'white' people. Quote:
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08-07-2007, 02:27 PM | #23 | |||
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Everyone seems to accept that term. For myself, I like Polish. though far back I had a leaving England relative who didn't make it to the U.S. because he or his wife, I forget, got sick and they had to stay in Leiden.
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08-07-2007, 02:29 PM | #24 | |||
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That is really funny on several levels... as in "unfair" deeper within.
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08-07-2007, 02:34 PM | #25 | |||
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So the criminal thing is a matter of view point.
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08-07-2007, 02:39 PM | #26 | |||
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In the days before the onslaught of Europeans there was no name for them.
There were only the people. When the Europeans came they called themselves white to denote they thought their skin tone had superiority. All of the so called writings were done by these people and so who is to believe anything they wrote. Hence the silly stories they call legends. |
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08-07-2007, 04:21 PM | #27 | |||
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I thought we called it History?
You mean to tell me I devoted some years of my life to studying Ancient Silly Legends and Modern Silly Legends? I should have stuck with Mythology instead? darn! Sheesh, here I was thinking how much I learned and how interesting it was. I like to think that we're all "people". I find that categorising people into different compartments only serves to made the division worse. I don't walk down the street and think to myself that person is from Lebanon, or that person is from Greece or that person is wearing a Birka therefore they must be this or that. If I walk down the street and drop into a bakery and buy a delicious treat I may think how wonderful their heritage must be and give thanks to that person for knowing how to make such a wonderful thing, but I don't go around sorting people into different colours or nationalities or faiths etc.. |
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08-07-2007, 04:29 PM | #28 | |||
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Seriously, though... I find myself saying... Ahhhh, but was the bakery treat a French or Belgian pastry???? I think about heritage a lot. When I see a person with a Greek name on telly, I always try to see if I can see Greek coin type lines in their face... similarly Italians... do they look like the Roman coins... and people with pudgy faces... I always wonder if there's some Polish in them, like there is in me... on and on... I think the reason the word "white" was found to be unacceptable, was that it was too broad... people might be included who weren't actually a part of it. Though why we then think it is all right to talk about Black people, is a contradiction... isn't it?
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08-07-2007, 04:33 PM | #29 | |||
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Doody, I just found your reply (no idea how I missed it for so long) and it's great!!!!!
So the word should be all right to use. Great post, thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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08-07-2007, 04:33 PM | #30 | ||
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