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But to me (not a native speaker), "person of color" is vague and misleading. I didn't even automatically know it's about the person's skin color. First I though
by serial_dev 2y ago
But to me (not a native speaker), "person of color" is vague and misleading. I didn't even automatically know it's about the person's skin color. First I thought it means a flamboyant, over-the-top person.
If I think about colors in the scientific sense (black: lack of light, white: mixture of lights from all colors), the "person of color" expression would include everyone except black people, but how it is used, it includes everyone except white people (wherever we draw this "white-enough" line, depending on the context).
Why not just use "non-white person"?
- layer8 2y agoAs a child I always found “white” weird, because the skin of white people isn’t actually white. The same for black, red, and yellow. The only one that seems accurate is “brown”. So maybe it should be “brown” and “non-brown”. ;)
- schindlabua 2y agoskin color is determined by pigment (like crayons) so I'd say it's a subtractive color scheme, and black is all colors mixed together while white is a lack of color.