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What term do you use then for dark skinned people... African Americans.... if so what do you call the same people but who now live in other countries..
skivvy1
n pl -vies
Chiefly Brit often contemptuous a servant, esp a female, who does menial work of all kinds; drudge
vb -vies, -vying, -vied
(intr) Brit to work as a skivvy
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What term do you use then for dark skinned people... African Americans.... if so what do you call the same people but who now live in other countries..
skivvy1
n pl -vies
Chiefly Brit often contemptuous a servant, esp a female, who does menial work of all kinds; drudge
vb -vies, -vying, -vied
(intr) Brit to work as a skivvy
[of unknown origin]
What term do you use then for dark skinned people... African Americans.... if so what do you call the same people but who now live in other countries..
skivvy1
n pl -vies
Chiefly Brit often contemptuous a servant, esp a female, who does menial work of all kinds; drudge
vb -vies, -vying, -vied
(intr) Brit to work as a skivvy
[of unknown origin]
So different. Here's it's "Hey, you almost caught me in my skivvies!" Underwear, used jokingly.
Where I live black people are called black people although to be PC we're probably supposed to call them African Americans. A million years ago when mammoths roamed the earth, we called them Negroes. There were Negroes, Orientals, and Caucasians.
Then it became blacks, Asians, and whites. Then everybody got offended and demanded different words.
On CD I read about people like me being called Anglos. ????? I would call myself white. I would say, "a black person from the Caribbean" or a "black person from Kenya." One online group I'm in called a black man a black man today in the group. The black man is her son in law and she was talking about how the people in the hospital didn't "get" the idea of the black man in the waiting room being the husband of the white woman having the baby."
There is another woman in the same group who is half black and she uses the word "black."
We don't call Pakistanis, black or Asian. I THINK (cannot vouch for other parts of a country that is thousands of miles wide) that most people use Black, White, and Asian. To complicate things, there are millions of people from South America and Mexico that were always white; now they are hispanic? or something else? disclaimer: I mostly only know what I read on CD, in real life nobody where I live even cares.)
I thought the term black was used almost everywhere now... as Ian said People , were all the same or should be...
The term "black people" may understood as "racist", especially when a white person is using it. Sometimes the term African/Afro-Caribbean would be more appropritate in order to avoid confrontation.
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I MAY also agree with the poster who said that there is racism in northern cities that most of us are not aware of and that it's not just the south. But racism in the north would be much more subtle and it's unfamiliar to me.
The North may (usually) have less overt racism but certainly race is definitely an issue in the North; considering among other things, the extreme residential segregation in much of the northern US, it's hard for me to imagine anyone wouldn't notice it. The North has its "chocolate cities" for example:
But the fact remains that it was in the south that the people weren't supposed to ride on the bus or drink from the same water fountains. The south also had (has?) the KKK and used to lynch people. I don't think the north has much history of anything like that.
Except that was nearly 50 years ago, it's not really relevant about today. Don't know much about the south, but from what I've read some issues remain, but in some areas there's been huge improvement. Today, some northern blacks move to the south.
I was surprised by the open racism in a few of the conversations I had in the London area with some British folks. Total strangers talked to me like they assumed I shared their views.
American racists seem to be a little more sneaky/in the closet about their views.
I suppose I'd rather see them coming than not know.
Those days are long gone. The south still have racist issues,but that's mainly in the rural areas. I will say the the north now is more racist than the south,and New York is the capital of it.
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