For example, many caucasions are called "white," but no caucasion thinks their skin actually looks white for real. Maybe peach, tan, or something. I am interested in what you actually perceive your skin color to be, especially among those who have a skin tone others sometimes label in English with a color. E.g., reddish for some northern Europeans, brown for some people, black for others.
My bet is that whatever color-label you are called, just as most caucasions called "white" would not actually perceive their skin as in any way white, "red" Irishman would in no way perceive their skin as reddish, "blacks" would in no way perceive their skin as actually black, and so on for "brown" and "yellow". In each case, each person perceives their color to be kind of hard to describe, just as a caucasion might struggle and say peach-ish.
Alternatively, perhaps some of you are, say, called "brown" by others in the racial or ethnic sense, and ALSO truly perceive yourself to be genuinely brown.
2006-08-10
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