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ls "half caste" offensive?
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Physical anthropologists generally reckon that the notion of race is a redundant one!!! There are NO major PERCEIVED differences between the different races!!!!
What do you mean? What's a physical anthropologist?
There aren't, really. Blacks and whites are physically identical, with a few subtle adaptations to the climate in which they live, like pigmentation or sickle-cell anaemia. It's the same with those from the Indian sub-continent, the Far East, the Middle East. Race exists in no real sense, only culturally.
that makes sense now Kermit, and I agree.
It's a branch of anthropology which deals with how humans evolved!
Ahh yeah, I agree.
i didn't know that, thanks
My understanding is that, if you believe in genetics and the evolutionary chain, we are decendants of "Blacks"... dominant genes etc...
Joking and in private is another thing. But still, can't see the relevance of the term in everyday usage.
Stop using so many exclamation marks! Its really annoying!!!!!!!!
See!!!!!
Identity perhaps? As long as diversity is celebrated whilst not segregating.
I don't understand where you're heading at?
sorry couldnt resisit :P
wha yu mean
when yu say half-caste
mix red an green
is a half-caste canvas
it's a poem looky http://www.intermix.org.uk/poetry/poetry_01_agard.asp
doesn't that answer it SG?
Not really - as the word Welsh means foreigner and was used by the Anglo-Saxon invaders as a derogotary term for the natives of this Island. I don't see massive calls we should not longer call it them.
Come to that 'Paki' means pure in Urdu - but people don't mean it like that
It doesn't matter where the word comes from - it's how people use it now that matters. Now half-caste may be insulting - but it's historical connotations (which 99% of people don't know) is irrelevant in that.
I didn't know that. I just thought that the origins of the word is interesting and could give a clue as to why it is so insulting today.
Could be as much referring to someone as 'half' anything.
Calling someone who's vertically challenged half-pint will often get you into a fight (though normally I can just hold my hand outstretched against their head and they can't get near enough to get a decent swing in)