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Mixed Message
pop star JAMELIA, on the Loose Women panel today, said "You're not supposed to say Mixed Race anymore -the correct term is Dual Heritage". We're you aware of this?
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If I am telling a story about person A and the person listening to the story has not met them (and lives in the wrong part of the world to do so), I am quite fond of NOT mentioning that person A was non-white.
Reason being, I want to see their reaction purely to the events in the story and not have the listener, mistakenly, think that my focus is on their heritage and I am setting out my opinions on an entire group of people.
If you tell a story and feel the need to mention the colour or nationality of one of the protagonists, think carefully about why you feel the need to do that. (Unless you are the ail MilaDy and this is your stock-in-trade). :-P
Personally, I cannot think of any definition of 'race' which doesn't fall over, when subjected to scientific scrutiny, except the one which asserts that there is only the 'human race'.
There is a curious thing about Herring Gulls and Lesser Black-Backed Gulls, whereby the north American Herring gulls get darker the further west you go, darker still, as you go further west across the Russian steppes, until you get Lesser Black-Backed ones in western Europe. They've recently found that they are 100% genetically compatible but simply *choose* not to interbreed, on the whole (unusual hybrids sometimes crop up).
This is sexual selection in action and also a case of choosing a mate based on external looks. I can easily see how the human race became so divergent for similar reasons.
It's unfortunate that we get so hung up about where people come from. More unfortunate that some 19th century gits had to dream up a concept to set us apart from (and 'above') people who were not like them and more unfortunate still that those on the receiving end of the prejudice it engendered still (have to) perpetuate this concept and find it necessary to tell us how much certain nametags offend them as well as when yesteryear's 'more acceptable' tag is this year's unacceptable tag.
Has anyone referenced Cumberbatch's 'senior moment' yet?
Reason being, I want to see their reaction purely to the events in the story and not have the listener, mistakenly, think that my focus is on their heritage and I am setting out my opinions on an entire group of people.
If you tell a story and feel the need to mention the colour or nationality of one of the protagonists, think carefully about why you feel the need to do that. (Unless you are the ail MilaDy and this is your stock-in-trade). :-P
Personally, I cannot think of any definition of 'race' which doesn't fall over, when subjected to scientific scrutiny, except the one which asserts that there is only the 'human race'.
There is a curious thing about Herring Gulls and Lesser Black-Backed Gulls, whereby the north American Herring gulls get darker the further west you go, darker still, as you go further west across the Russian steppes, until you get Lesser Black-Backed ones in western Europe. They've recently found that they are 100% genetically compatible but simply *choose* not to interbreed, on the whole (unusual hybrids sometimes crop up).
This is sexual selection in action and also a case of choosing a mate based on external looks. I can easily see how the human race became so divergent for similar reasons.
It's unfortunate that we get so hung up about where people come from. More unfortunate that some 19th century gits had to dream up a concept to set us apart from (and 'above') people who were not like them and more unfortunate still that those on the receiving end of the prejudice it engendered still (have to) perpetuate this concept and find it necessary to tell us how much certain nametags offend them as well as when yesteryear's 'more acceptable' tag is this year's unacceptable tag.
Has anyone referenced Cumberbatch's 'senior moment' yet?
Benedict Cumberbatch when talking on US television recently about racial inequality felt obliged to issue a grovelling apology after referring to black people as ‘coloured’ – despite the fact that an organisation that goes under the title ‘National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’ exists there. Personally I’m sick of all this nonsense. Rather than seeking offence where very clearly none is intended those who bristle at the slightest perceived insult need to get over themselves and join the human race – and the rest of us need to stop pandering to them. They are not a special case.
Looks like France is having a dose of it today:
"We need to stop massacring the symbols of our history in the name of ‘multiculturalism"
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"We need to stop massacring the symbols of our history in the name of ‘multiculturalism"
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If someone said to me - "You're not supposed to say ..." - my instant response would be - says who?
Society belongs to all of us.
We all put our trousers on one leg at a time.
If someone(s) want to set themselves up as dictionary guardians, I would be inclined to ignore them.
I would deal with any issue regarding perceived stereotyping on an individual basis - if someone is offended by a term I use to them, we can disucss it - otherwise, life is just too short to spend watching out for advance imagined perceived offence.
Some people have a dual dose of too much self-importance and too much imagined sensitivity.
Society belongs to all of us.
We all put our trousers on one leg at a time.
If someone(s) want to set themselves up as dictionary guardians, I would be inclined to ignore them.
I would deal with any issue regarding perceived stereotyping on an individual basis - if someone is offended by a term I use to them, we can disucss it - otherwise, life is just too short to spend watching out for advance imagined perceived offence.
Some people have a dual dose of too much self-importance and too much imagined sensitivity.
