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Soooo...... am I the only one who noticed Africa was annotated with a black coloured human, and Asia with a yellow one.
by seivan 14y ago
Soooo...... am I the only one who noticed Africa was annotated with a black coloured human, and Asia with a yellow one.
- alistairclark 14y agoHaha yeah me too. It's like Power Rangers all over again.
- masterkain 14y agoExplained in the FAQ: http://www.7billionworld.com/faq.php http://www.7billionworld.com/faq.php
- jere 14y agoThey seem to be confused. From wikipedia: >As can be read in the Olympic Charter, the Olympic symbol represents the union of the five regions of the world and the meeting of athletes from throughout the world at the Olympic Games. However, no continent is represented by any specific ring. Prior to 1951, the official handbook stated that each colour corresponded to a particular continent: blue for Europe, yellow for Asia, black for Africa, green for Australia and Oceania and red for America (North and South considered as a single continent); this was removed because there was no evidence that Coubertin had intended it (the quote above was probably an afterthought). If you stop to think about it for a moment, if that were the case, it would make the olympic logo seem quite racist.
- Cthulhu_ 14y agoIs there a particular color Africans or Asians prefer to associate themselves with moreso than the colors chosen there? Just curious. I don't see how associating a certain continent with a certain color would be racist.
- jere 14y agoA lot of racial slurs are based on a caricature of people's skin colors. Selecting a color that has historically had that problem and then intentionally assigning it to the target of those caricatures seems, if not malicious, at least completely oblivious.
- trhtrsh 14y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-African_colours http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-African_colours At least some of the folks who claim to speak for Africa say "black" represents the people.
- Kequc 14y agoThis seems a liiiiiiitle bit overly sensitive to me.