I know the term coloured is very offensive and outdated, Why is that only brown people are refered to as 'Coloured'?
Isn't white a colour too?
2007-03-26 10:20:48 · 24 answers · asked by Blackout 2 in Social Science ➔ Sociology
Dreamweaver - How about refering to people by their names? Anyways i wasn't really talking about appropiate names to categorise people
2007-03-26 11:30:58 · update #1
indeed it is true but "coloured" people ( and i hate the phrase too but have 5 children who when little ... my now eldest asked why the lady was chocolate in the doctors one day) i answered because she comes from a very hot place and the sun makes them brown.............!!!!!!!... i know i was 18 at the time.........actualy you have just messed my head up .you are absolutely right.....but what if we went to a country where the people were natively dark and we were white ..........how would they refer to us? swings and roundabouts my friend.
2007-03-26 10:29:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
This sounds like a cri de Couer asking for a supportive opinion . No white is the absence of colour or scientists say
all colours of the spectrum. A question like this which is really an opinion will not change attitudes in society one Jot
As An intelligent person you must realise that this ''reasoning has gone on from time immemorial but people are not reasonable so don't ever expect them to be . thems the Brakes
2007-03-27 11:35:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
White in a scientific sense is all colors. But you are clearly confusing two distinct categories. Racial classifications which are truly immeasurable and colors which occur on a light spectrum which are measurable. Anyhow, colored is not particularly derogatory i.e. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). I think it has just fallen out of favor. It is more a linguistic thing than a political thing.
2007-03-27 01:29:20 · answer #3 · answered by dentalflossbush 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is the term coloured really outdated!? My boyfriend is "yellow" and doesn't mind being called that. We are all the same anyway so who cares!?
2007-03-26 17:33:23 · answer #4 · answered by Ginny Jin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
really the matter is that it is not really brown people they use the term black and to some people white and black in not a colour and others it is really it makes not sense we are all human beings and really all need respect
2007-03-26 17:27:59 · answer #5 · answered by bobbie 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
white is a neutral color. if all the colored people were too unite for 1 perpose and objective. we can take away the power that white people have. and put the power back in too the hands that know how too preserve there heritage and customs,that are slowly dieing because of brain washing by white people. red,brown or black, we should unite and take the world back and end slavery.
2007-03-26 17:28:59 · answer #6 · answered by rapterpilot64 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Really there is no colour. The light that reflects off objects create the colour that are eyes see.
2007-03-26 17:27:55 · answer #7 · answered by Bruce P 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Strictly speaking No, White is the absence of colour, its only the ignorant that refer to brown people as anything other than brown. Sources... EVERY ASIAN FRIEND I HAVE.
Much the same as my black friends refer to themselves as Black etc etc.
2007-03-26 17:25:53 · answer #8 · answered by Whatever. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to be honest we all have our own way of describing our fellow human beings - and the PC thing is or has changed this - however, we know that what we call each other as in own colour is not aloud to cross the board.
2007-03-27 23:10:35 · answer #9 · answered by deep in thought 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it was white people who coined the phrase. Meaning they viewed white as the norm and any other people were 'coloured'
2007-03-26 17:33:13 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋