Re: sturdy old apple

[Donald Lee <coach41@pacbell.net>]

Sorry to add to the length of this thread but I wanted to chime in with
that it seems LOTS of people in the US get hung up over their
designations "African American", "Asian American", etc, etc.  One of my
co-workers said he was tired of that as he said "we are all American"
regardless of skin color/ethnicity.  Some of you have already pointed it
out, but "designations" don't do anyone justice.  When we say "African
American" we automatically think of a "black" person, "Asian American"
as someone from China/Japan/etc, and so on.  

My "white" co-worker is from Africa.  I made fun of him, telling him
that he was "African American".  

How about the fact that my dad, who was born in China, moved to Peru and
speaks Spanish, 3 dialects of CHinese and English?  Quite a few of my
aunts/uncles/cousins were born in Peru.  How would you desribe them? 
"Latin Chinese American"? :D

It's pretty crazy out there how people worry about their
"designations"?  Man, we're just "human" living on the planet earth!!  

Donald



Bill Garber wrote:
> 
> "Gregory L. Hansen" <glhansen@steel.ucs.indiana.edu> wrote in
> message news:ce88pt$9if$1@hood.uits.indiana.edu...
> 
> : That's how it was when I was in San Jose.
> : There were whites, blacks, asians, and hispanics.
> 
> These all describe a wide variance.
> 
> White = anyone with very light pigmentation.
> Black = anyone with fairly dark pigmentation.
> Asian = people who are from the Asiatic region.
> Hispanic = those who speak Spanish as their primary language.
> 
> : Nobody bothered to hyphenate each other, I suppose
> : because it takes too long to say.  My father's new
> : wife prefers Indian over Native American.
> 
> Actually Native American is more correct than Indian.
> Indians are people from India. Being the traders thought
> they had landed in the West Indies, they decided to dub
> the people they found here, West Indians, and then shortened
> it to just, Indians. If you buy into the Bering Strate
> theory, they are probably originally Chinese, or Russian
> or a combination of cultures which cross-bred along the
> way.
> 
> : But some people get pretty hung up over that sort
> : of thing.
> 
> I agree, so, please just call me Bill, or William. :o)
> 
> : I did actually see one article that refered to
> : European-Americans.  It was the first time I'd
> : ever seen anyone hyphenating everyone else, and
> : also hyphenate white guys.
> 
> Not really, African-American hyphenated an entire
> continent of people long ago, and that's really
> silly to only call the black people from there
> that one, being that there are quite a consensus
> of whites in Africa.  :o)
> 
> : "Things should be made as simple as possible -- but no
> simpler."
> :   -- Albert Einstein
> 
> But we quite often attempt to, don't we?
> 
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