Here is a topic which has concerned me for a while and I would like to get some, in depth, across the board views on it.
In America different races are prefixed and grouped by their country of orgin e.g. African-American, Irish-American etc, etc.
Now in Britain, this is true to a point, except when describing people of African origin, we are just a color ... "Black"!
Now am I the only person who is uncomfortable with this grouping? It's as though I'm being stripped of a nationality. It says very little, to an uneducated person, about my beginnings and thus robs me of a history, how ever tattered it may be.
Even job application forms highlight my colour, but an Asian get's enough respect to be broken down into different groups of Asians. A European gets called a European, but I am "Black", "Black" this or "Black" that. This highlight of skin colour is what causes problems because it seperates a person from the masses, in a country where they are a minority, in an instance.
2007-02-16
22:05:50
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