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myccrider

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5. This is a complete aside to your post...
Sun Apr 3, 2022, 03:44 PM
Apr 2022

which I totally agree with, btw.

But I recently cogitated about how everyone parses people by describing them as Mexican-American or Chinese-American, etc. and then call all the rest of us either plain American or just "white". I’ve taken to calling the rest of us European-American or Euro-American instead, because that reduces, slightly, the idea that we are the standard, the "normal", the default. I mean, all of us came from someplace else within the last few hundred years, too (except First People/Native Americans, of course).

Just a thought.

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