<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content=text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.18852"></HEAD> <BODY style="PADDING-LEFT: 10px; PADDING-RIGHT: 10px; WORD-WRAP: break-word; PADDING-TOP: 15px; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space" id=MailContainerBody leftMargin=0 topMargin=0 CanvasTabStop="true" name="Compose message area"> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>That reminds me of an American newscast from a few years ago in which the anchor referred to Britain's "African-American population" -- referring to British natives, not American transplants.</FONT></DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Tahoma"> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #f5f5f5"> <DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=persisto@live.com href="mailto:persisto@live.com">Craig Kilby</A> </DIV> <DIV><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, December 06, 2009 6:06 PM</DIV> <DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=Rolgeiger@aol.com href="mailto:Rolgeiger@aol.com">Rolgeiger@aol.com</A> </DIV> <DIV><B>Cc:</B> <A title=apgpubliclist@apgen.org href="mailto:apgpubliclist@apgen.org">apgpubliclist@apgen.org</A> ; <A title=apgmembersonlylist@apgen.org href="mailto:apgmembersonlylist@apgen.org">apgmembersonlylist@apgen.org</A> </DIV> <DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [APG Members] "caucasian" instead of "white"</DIV></DIV></DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>Roland, <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>You have to take all of this in the context of the time at which it was written. Recently, I have found Nelson Mandela and a Kenyan athlete described as :African-American. Just what that is supposed to mean is anyone's guess.</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>Craig Kilby</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>On Dec 6, 2009, at 3:55 PM, <A href="mailto:Rolgeiger@aol.com">Rolgeiger@aol.com</A> wrote:</DIV> <DIV> <DIV><BR class=Apple-interchange-newline> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" id=role_body bottommargin="7" leftmargin="7" rightmargin="7" topmargin="7"><FONT id=role_document color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial> <DIV>Hello, <BR><BR>Reading the "Declaration of the Intention" of a woman from 1917 she states:<BR><BR>color white<BR>complexion fair<BR><BR>I read that: <BR>color of skin: white<BR>color of face: "fair" = bright?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Or what is the difference? And why is there a difference?<BR><BR></DIV> <DIV>From a friend I learned that today they take "caucasian" instead of "white" for color of skin.<BR><BR>Can someone tell me the reason for that?<BR><BR>Thanks a lot in advance. <BR><BR>Roland Geiger, St. Wendel, Germany</DIV> <DIV> </DIV></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>