Comment on Is there a website that can tell you the new names to I guess "classify" people? Like the R word, or the N word or skin color or nationaility? For ex. Is African American still acceptable and so forth

gon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  My nigerian friend swears he’s not black but fair-skinned because one of his ancestors was white. Apparently once the bloodline gets dilluted, they don’t count as black amymore.

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  • gon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Well, maybe in Nigeria…

    Then again, race is a social construct anyway! Fair enough I guess (pun intended).

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    • HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yeah his reasoning was how it’s defined in Nigeria. Had some fun conversations like “dude, you’re black”

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  • Nollij@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That’s remarkably similar to British colonialism. IIRC, they believed you “removed” that part of their lineage after 3 generations.

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• palordrolap@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Black for Sub-Saharan African descent, sure. Things get a bit more difficult if you want to talk about north Africans.

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  • harmbugler@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    And South Africans.

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    • palordrolap@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      For the sake of ethnic origin, white South Africans are European, but I grant you that things are getting to the point of being somewhat complicated there too.

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      • harmbugler@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        You’re right of course. Overall, I’m just exhausted by the arbitrary and vague lines we keep drawing between peoples, especially when we link culture to skin colour like we must be able to instantly see someone’s black culture at a distance.

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  • gon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yes, fair enough.

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• daychilde@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  There is a mild push to “emphasize people first”, i.e. not someone who is mentally disabled, but a person with mental disabilities.

  Although having worked with clients who were, the term I learned and used as optimal was “adults with cognitive and developmental disabilities”.

  :shrug; I’m not suggesting that’s “more correct”, mind.

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