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_wolfie_ | 3 years ago

Yellow is not a color? I always assumed that Asians are included in PoC.

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zdragnar|3 years ago

So are Black and Indigenous. The point is to lump Asians into "other" and only pay lip service to their inclusion.

BurningFrog|3 years ago

Side issue, but I grew up in Sweden thinking asians have yellow skin.

After living and working with asians for decades in the Bay area, I have yet to meet a yellow one. To my eye, they're on the same white(pink)-brown-black spectrum as the rest of humanity.

ChickenNugger|3 years ago

Well yeah...

White people are pale to darkly tanned

Natives Americans are brown, not red

Black people are brown, not black, some not even very brown

Indian people are shades of brown too, and yet can be far darker than "black" people.

Japanese people are brown, not yellow

None of the colloquial color terms for races are accurate when you sit down and think about it.

The one time it might have been accurate is redheads are often pale enough to be white, so of course we call them gingers/redheads.

It's all a bit silly.

f6v|3 years ago

It seems that some Asians are already over-represented in certain fields, like sciences. I heard somewhere that being Chinese makes your chances of admission worse.