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It was extra hilarious when asked to generate a picture of ancient Greek philosopher it made it a Native American. Because it is well known Greeks not only had
by sharpneli 3y ago
It was extra hilarious when asked to generate a picture of ancient Greek philosopher it made it a Native American. Because it is well known Greeks not only had contact with the new world but also had prominent population of Native Americans.
It really wants to mash the whole world to a very specific US centric view of the world, and calls you bad for trying to avoid it.
- jack_riminton 3y agoReminds me of when black people in the UK get called African American by Americans. No they're neither African nor American It's an incredibly self-centered view of the world
- BonoboIO 3y agoElon Musk is a real African American
- peanuty1 3y agoElon Musk is not considered African-American according to the popular usage of the term as he is of European descent despite being born in South Africa. Lebron James is a real African-American.
- mc32 3y agoThat’s kind of funny. Chinese and Taiwanese transplants call natural born Americans, whether black, white or latin, “foreigners” when speaking in Chinese dialects even while they live in America. Oh, your husband/wife/boyfriend/girlfriend is a “foreigner”, ma? No, damnit, you’re the foreigner!
- rwultsch 3y agoI enjoy that “ma” has ambiguous meaning above. Does it mean mandarin question mark word or does possibly mean mother?
- mc32 3y agoIt's both a particle and a question mark word. [Ta]是外國人嗎? This is how the question would be asked in the mainland or in the regional diaspora of Chinese speakers where foreigners are few. Where foreigner often is a substitute for the most prevalent non-regional foreigner (i.e. it's not typically used for Malaysian or Thai nationals in China) So for those who come over state-side they don't modify the phrase, they keep using foreigner [外國人] for any non-Asian, even when those "foreigners" are natural born.
- vidarh 3y agoThey clearly knew that, but was joking about the dual meaning of the question mark and mā as in 妈/mother, which is ambiguous when written out in an English comment where it's not a given why there isn't a tone mark (or whether or not they intent the English 'ma', for that matter).
- solarhexes 3y agoI think it’s just that’s the word you’ve been taught to use. It’s divorced from the meaning of its constituent parts, you aren’t saying “an American of African descent” you’re saying “black” but in what was supposed to be some kind of politically correct way. I cannot imagine even the most daft American using it in the UK and intending that the person is actually American.
- jack_riminton 3y agoWell it's pretty daft to call anyone American if they're not American
- fdsfdsafdsafds 3y agoIt's pretty daft to call anyone African if they're not African.
- jack_riminton 3y agoYep, equally daft!
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- gverrilla 3y agoYeah it's something that happens a lot. Yesterday I've seen a video calling a white animal "caucasian".
- vidarh 3y agoMy black African ex once chewed out an American who not only called her African American but "corrected her" after she referred to herself as black, in a very clear British received pronunciation accent that has no hint of American to it, by insisting it was "African American". And not while in the US either - but in the UK.
- jack_riminton 3y agoWow. I've been corrected on my English (as an Englishman, living in England, speaking English) by an American before. But to be corrected of your race is something else
- vidarh 3y agoDid they complain you didn't speak with the correct English accent too? I always find it hilarious when Americans talk about English accents and seem to think there are one - or maybe two if they've seen any period movies or Mary Poppins -, given there are several clearly distinct English accents in use in my London borough alone (ignoring accents with immigrant origin, which would add many more)
- dekhn 3y agoit's either posh or cockney, right?
- jack_riminton 3y agoThey wanted to find Leicester Square in London - Hey can you tell me where "lie-sester" square is? - Oh you mean "lester" square, yeah walk up that... - No I'm pretty sure it's "lie-sester" - Ok well I've never heard of that square, good luck!
- cc81 3y agoI support them in their fight against how you guys pronounce certain things compared to how it is spelled. I'm not from the US though but Worcestershire sauce....come on.
- stcroixx 3y agoWhat is the preferred term in the UK - African British?
- fdsfdsafdsafds 3y agoIf you started calling British black people "African", it wouldn't be long before you got a punch.
- jack_riminton 3y agoWell if they're black and you were describing their race you'd just say they're black. If they're black and British and you're describing their nationality you'd say they were British.
- Jerrrry 3y agoBlack British, because their skin is colored, and are British. Black American, same way. "African-" implies you were born in Africa, "-American" imples you then immigrated to America. Elon Musk is an African-American. 13% of the US population are Black Americans.
- dekhn 3y agoAre extremely dark-skinned people (for example from South India) who move to england called "Black"? I've never heard that and would be surprised but i'm curious.
- Jerrrry 3y agoThey would be called black socially, but would be Indian-British til they revealed their accent, I would think.
- peanuty1 3y agoThe term African-American does not imply that one was born in Africa. It refers to Americans of African ethnicity (which includes Carribean-Americans of African descent). Chris Rock, Lebron James, and Michael Jordan are all African-Americans born in the US. Elon Musk is not considered African-American according to the popular usage of the term as he is of European descent despite being born in South Africa.
- sib 3y agoWell, they're as "African" as "African Americans" are... OTOH, Elon Musk is a literal African American (as would be an Arab immigrant to the US from Egypt or Morocco), but can't be called that. So let's admit that such group labels are pretty messed up in general.
- gspetr 3y ago>as would be an Arab immigrant to the US from Egypt If you want to get *very* technical then it's possible to not be African if you're from Egypt: "Egypt is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia."
- hot_gril 3y agoContinents aren't technical, though. There are different definitions. Like, look into whether Georgia is considered part of Europe or Asia.
- hot_gril 3y agoI promise it's not because we think of people outside the US as American. When I was a kid in the 2000s, we were told never to say "black" and to say "African-American" instead. There was no PC term in the US to refer to black people who are not American. This has started to change lately, but it's still iffy. Besides that, many Americans (including myself) are self-centered in other ways. Yes I like our imperial units better than the metric system, no I don't care that they're called "customary units" outside the US, etc.
- bsimpson 3y agoFahrenheit gets a bad rap. 100F is about as hot as you'll ever get. 0F is about as cold as you'll ever get. It's a perceptual system.
- hot_gril 3y agoI go outside the country and all the thermostats are in 0.5˚C increments because it's too coarse, heh.
- vidarh 3y agoI can't recall caring about <1 degree increments other than for fevers or when people discuss record highs or lows.
- overstay8930 3y agoLmao my thermostat in Germany was in Fahrenheit because the previous occupant disliked the inaccuracy of Celsius since the """software""" allowed the room to get colder before kicking in while in C.
- vidarh 3y agoThe day after I left Oslo after Christmas, it hit -20F. 0F is peanuts. I've also experienced above 100F several times. In the US, incidentally. It may be a perceptual system, but it's not very perceptive, and very culturally and geographically limited. (incidentally I also have far more use for freezing point and boiling point of water, but I don't think it makes a big difference for celsius that those happen to be 0 and 100 either)
- Ajay-p 3y agoThat is not artificial intelligence, that is deliberate mucking with the software to achieve a desired outcome. Google is utterly untrustworthy in this regard.
- Perceval 3y agoAI stands for Artificial Ideology
- FlyingSnake 3y ago> it is well known Greeks not only had contact with the new world but also had prominent population of Native Americans. I’m really surprised to hear this tidbit, because I thought Leif Erickson was then first one from the old world to do venture there. Did Ancient Greeks really made contact with the Native Americans?
- sharpneli 3y agoIt was a joke. Obviously there was no contact whatsoever between the two. Gemini basically forces the current US ethnical representation fashions to every situation regardless of how well it fits.
- hot_gril 3y agoIt's really revealing. You can pick apart the chatbot's biases with as many questions as you'd like. A real person would weasel out of that, especially a PR agent.