> I don't think any European here would disagree. The fact that you categorise someone as "black" is just awful. I'm from the UK, and I'm mystified as to why y

> I don't think any European here would disagree. The fact that you categorise someone as "black" is just awful. I'm from the UK, and I'm mystified as to why you think that. > Are southern Italians black? What about Turks? ... See the problem? I see what the problem would be if the programme organizers were seeking to police the gender / ethnicity of attendees, but my guess is it's probably open to anybody who identifies as a black girl. Irrelevant grammatical aside: Why is somebody who attends something an attendee, not an attender?