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Old 06-02-2003, 11:43 AM   #14
Yorick
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Join Date: January 7, 2001
Location: Breukelen (over the river from New Amsterdam)
Age: 53
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Quote:
Originally posted by Iron_Ranger:
Wasn't it the Spanish the first here anyway? Well not the first here, the first to colonize it I should say. Spanish arent considered white are they?
Ever been to Spain?

America has this strange preoccupation with race. I actually find it offensive that the government has "race" boxes on forms.

White (nonhispanic)
Black (nonhispanic)
Hispanic
etc etc

The Singaporeans had some also. They had ID cards with your race printed on it.
Chinese
Malay
Indian
Caucasian
Other

Spainish are European. "White". Most Mexicans are Mestizo. Of European/Indian descent. Many others from say Dominica or Brazil are Mullatto. Mullattos could have a white dad and a black mum, yet they'd be "coloured"

The whole thing sickens me. Judging people by how they look reeks of apartheid.
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