Danlo

Wulfric is right on the money!! Not sure about Latvian though (I'm part Latvian as well). Any ideas Romansh??

Vinterland

My bad...I guess I thought so because of that tough guy image you give off.
Just kidding.

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And my soul said, "Let us pass on. He is the realist, who turns his back on the whole he cannot grasp, and busies himself with a fragment."
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xxkayxx

I actually have a similar curiosity. A lot of people say it's more "politically correct" to call black people African-Americans..so.....does that mean you call Blacks in Canada "African- Canadians"? or "african- polish" and so and so......

Just more groups and more and more for people to separate themselves....

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Vinterland

People are stupid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJuNgBkloFE

Most people don't know black people who are indiginous to Australia live in America, too.

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And on we walked. Suddenly we heard a voice crying, "This is the sea. This is the deep sea. This is the vast and mighty sea." And when we reached the voice it was a man whose back was turned to the sea, and at his ear he held a shell, listening to its murmur.
And my soul said, "Let us pass on. He is the realist, who turns his back on the whole he cannot grasp, and busies himself with a fragment."
—Gibran Khalil Gibran, “The Greater Sea.”

debdodd

I think they are called "people of color" .... at least that's what African Americans are called around here ...

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Lanya

I'd assume it'd differ with the person, place, and time period. 'Black' works for me, personally (which I am).

debdodd

what does a person of color want to be called if they are mixed race?

One of the carpool kids calls himself "black" (which he isn't) .... his dad is 1st generation Italian and his mom is 2nd generation Indian (southwest India) .... he thinks it's cool to call himself that .... I tell him to go to Alabama and say that then see how cool everyone thinks it is ... he's an obnoxious kid anyway .... no matter if he was green or purple ...

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"Ubi dubium ibi libertas."

"We are all lone souls. It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms. And indeed, we seem a species prone to that delusion, again and ever again ....."

debdodd

like you said .... demographics has a lot to do with it .... what part of the US do you live in?

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"We are all lone souls. It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms. And indeed, we seem a species prone to that delusion, again and ever again ....."

debdodd

You thought Romansh has a tough guy image too rich!!!

he's a cupcake underneath it all aren't you Romansh? Come on you know you're just a pussy cat underneath that macho exterior! same as me/I!

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"We are all lone souls. It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms. And indeed, we seem a species prone to that delusion, again and ever again ....."

Lanya

A suburb around Philadelphia.
I wouldn't know.