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> If I were European then I guess I'd find this rather more worrying than brown people moving in What does "brown people" mean? It seems like such a superficia
by andsoitis 3mo ago
> If I were European then I guess I'd find this rather more worrying than brown people moving in
What does "brown people" mean? It seems like such a superficially racist characterization.
- DennisP 3mo agoI assumed that was what the commenter above was talking about, but perhaps I'm wrong. From the little I know about it, most of the immigrants that right-wing Europeans complain about are from places to the south. In case my understatement made things unclear, it's not the sort of thing I worry about at all.
- andsoitis 3mo ago> most of the immigrants.... are from places to the south. and hence "brown"? What does that terminology even mean?
- ipaddr 3mo agoIn Europe it means Muslims and in North America is means South American. In China it means Indians.
- andsoitis 3mo ago> In Europe it means Muslims and in North America is means South American. In China it means Indians. Interesting. Thanks, I didn’t know that the Chinese used the phrase “brown people” to refer to Indians. Or that Mexicans (part of North America) use “brown people” to mean South Americans. It seems such a weird phrase to use. Is it white people who use the phrase? Or also brown people themselves? What about sub-Saharan Africa? Do they have a group they label “brown people”? Thanks for educating me.