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Kudos for IBM, though, for not playing this as background music on their hiring page: https://youtu.be/YSlNFMMqUs8 https://youtu.be/YSlNFMMqUs8 > it appears th
by microtherion 8y ago
Kudos for IBM, though, for not playing this as background music on their hiring page: https://youtu.be/YSlNFMMqUs8 https://youtu.be/YSlNFMMqUs8
> it appears the biz somehow took the Portuguese word amarelo, which is used in Brazil to describe people of Asian descent
... the word may be used for that, but it most assuredly does mean "yellow" as well, and the use as an ethnonym is NOT a coincidence.
- iguy 8y agoSure. But is it offensive in Brazil? I really don't know -- in english it is, obviously, but white/black are seen as fairly neutral. And these things shift weirdly with time. Ditto mulatto I guess (which was also in their list) -- I had an idea this was still a neutral term in parts of latin america, but could be wrong.