http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3cbKKf37Mg comes to mind.

But you're probably not WHITE WHITE. Maybe almost white. But plenty of asians are also almost white.

I feel for Khan. Even explaining where I came from end up like that.

Gawd, this comes up so often with you. During Katrina, there were two stories printed the same week in the same paper about people scavenging. One showed a picture of a white man carrying a loaf or two of bread, the other showing the black man doing the same. The headline for the white man said he was 'Scavenging' while the title for the black man said he was 'Stealing.'

Nobody is out to get you because you're white. Stop spouting the BS.

Most asians though do have a yellow/tan shade to their skin - Chinese people seem to be fairly white though compared to Japanese or Mongolians

Heh, I have made it a habit to not ask where people are from if I've never heard of it, otherwise I ask so many questions about what the place was like and etc. I find all that stuff fascinating, so I try not to ask so I dont annoy the heck out of them.

how do you know you haven't heard of it if you haven't asked them where they're from

Not neccesarilly true, in Australia there is a large amount of Indigenous only activities, grants, scholarships and positions.

(I only know because I'm indigenous myself, but if it was reversed you could imagine the uproar)

Look at the percentage of white people vs. indigenous people in the schools then tell me it's still racist against the white person....

I should probably say something on topic... It seems it's less politically correct to call an Asian person yellow than it is to call a black person black. I dunno why.

I found it patronising personally that I was offered the "indigenous" scholarship, not the "white" one, but I can see why they are in place.


I think it is less politically correct to call an Asian person yellow as the term Asian includes Indonesians and Indians. (Not to mention the fact that black people have turned most racist slangs into a source of pride, Ghetto passes and the like)

I'm not spouting any BS or trying to preach it, maybe I just encounter it a lot more than you do. What do you mean it comes up often with me, I ca't mind saying anything like this before
Thats not really the same calling people names, when have you heard of a black maperson being charge with verbally assaulting some white person with racial slurs ? I haven't heard of many compared to white pople being lifted for doing it to black people.
- I'm not spouting the "Aww they picking on the white folk now awww", nahh rather I'd say do away with this racist/ageist/sixist and whatever the gay ones called BS and get on with your life, do the normal thing and ignore or man up and contront it. More so the laws around it I hate: Free speech is not free when it is restricted to avoid offense - Some people get offended by sneezing near them, should I be lifted for that offense - like I said ealier call it as you see it

I've never seen or heard of anyone of any race being charged for racial slanging.

The most action I've seen is a current affair blowing things out of proportion

Thats because its not very high profile but some recent events happened in football last month http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/suarez-is-charged-with-racist-abuse-6263140.html.
Though its a football world charge he faces right now, he can face a real world charge if a complaint is made to the Police:
*Evra being the racial "abused" player

I'm sure if a white player complained about a similar event they would have received action.

Definitely with all the action the world of football is taking to stamp it out. But overall people should just get on with their lives, children endure harder bullying times in school than some advlts with a lil N word there or any other racial slur.

Although children probably haven't grown up in the same culture as advlts, even when I was a kid being black was considered "cool" (thanks to hip-hop), but the footballer might have put up with a lot of crap when he was a kid and the word is just a trigger

Personally, I'd just advise you to refer to all those who have preserved their blood heritage by the most accurate ethnic terms you know. Use wikipedia if you don't know any accurate ethnic terms. Your preference should be Endonym->Anthropological Term->Exonym The general-use terms (black, caucasian, asian, et cetera) are infuriatingly imprecise, and lump together many groups who'd prefer not to be lumped together.

I'd advise you to call your doctor -your friend must be terribly ill.

I don't consider it a bad word, but if he does not want to be called that then don't.


My overly racist friend gets annoyed when I call him "brown-eyes" to remind that he is not an Aryan. That doesn't mean "brown-eyes" is a bad word.

Tell your friend to stop being so yellow about it. Jeeze.

African American is a stupid term. Last I checked black =/= African, and there re plenty of africans who arent in America.

Depends. No I say Asian, I do however say black. Not to people if I know their names, then I use their name.

It proves how pedantic I can be when I get annoyed when people call an Oriental person Asian. A large percentage of Asia is made up by Indians and without Russia Asia wouldn't be the largest continent. It does annoy me, but not to the point of actually commenting on it to random people in public.

OT: Yellow is a derogatory term, not a very bad one, but it's best not to say it. I don't understand why you wouldn't just use his name?

Last I checked white =/= Hispanic either

When referring to people, I always saw "white" and "black" as a connotation of race, not really color. What we call "white people" aren't really the color white, and what we call "black people" aren't really the color black. Kind of like how in the US the term "brown" has been adopted by people of (I'll call it) "South of the Border" descent.

BTW, who old are you, OP? Usually, when someone asks this question, it is meant as a put down inferring the other person is young, ignorant, naive, etc... but in this instance, you have to be on the older side of the age spectrum. The last time I heard anyone refer to an person of Asian origin as "yellow" in real life was at the end of the Vietnam War ,when I was old enough to understand

Got in a little hometown jam, so they put a rifle in my hands...

Exactly.. Why would you ever need to refer to one of your friends by their skin color?
I don't think it's that offensive personally but if you have to ask the question its probably best not to.