3 ms·
Can you elaborate? When I visited South Africa, a few white people used it to refer to the non-whites. I do not know if they were just trying to be descriptive
by iends 13y ago
Can you elaborate? When I visited South Africa, a few white people used it to refer to the non-whites. I do not know if they were just trying to be descriptive or discriminatory. Perhaps it didn't mean what I thought it meant.
- nbm 13y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coloured http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coloured is fairly accurate. "Coloured" refers to (and is used self-descriptively by) a subset of people of mixed race of generally one or more of usually British and Dutch ancestry on the "White" side, and generally one or more of various Bantu groups (mostly Xhosa, Zulu, some Ndebele, &c.) or Khoisan ancestry, and sometimes also of Malaysian or other South-East Asian ancestry (from ex-Dutch colonies).
- markdown 13y agoA more descriptive, if not less offensive, term would be half-caste. Half-caste means the same thing everywhere in the world. I am one.
- emp 13y agoI would get scowled at using that term when I first moved out of SA. It is referring to a specific group of people: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Coloureds http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Coloureds