Kuya

[Demosthenes]

Choice like a mother.

[Alleya]

Kuya being black doesn't have anything to do with skin color here, just how disagreeable someone finds you. For example, Tiger Woods was always a "half black half asian" golf player until people found out he was cheating on his wife, then he became full black. Before 9/11 arabs were black too, but now that they have a special place for hatred they are islamists.

[BRP]

Kuya being black doesn't have anything to do with skin color here, just how disagreeable someone finds you. For example, Tiger Woods was always a "half black half asian" golf player until people found out he was cheating on his wife, then he became full black. Before 9/11 arabs were black too, but now that they have a special place for hatred they are islamists.

nah, arabs have been portrayed as psychopaths in the media since like forever.

[Alleya]

Granted I was young when 9/11 happened. I do have some recollection of of the evil arab stereotypes from before, but 9/11 really cemented the dichotomy.

[Demosthenes]

In my case, i may have physical qualities similar to what is called a black man in the US, but i do not share culture ideaology.

Story of my life in the US.

[Alleya]

btw my professor grew up in Zimbabwe and the congo and traveled all over africa before coming to the US in '68. He is white. Is he an african american?

[Kuya]

If you want to be literal

[Alleya]

It just seems to me that the term african american makes 2 assumptions about the person that are not universally true. No?

[Demosthenes]

I don't know about the other blacks here, but I fill out other... or write in european-african.

[Cadsuane]

It just seems to me that the term african american makes 2 assumptions about the person that are not universally true. No?

Race euphemisms are more insulting than blatant racism. ":3

[quannum]

i wonder why republicans don't call obama a kenyan-american

[Demosthenes]

i wonder why republicans don't call obama a kenyan-american

Too focused on calling him just "Kenyan"