| ▲ | andsoitis 21 hours ago |
| > If I were European then I guess I'd find this rather more worrying than brown people moving in What does "brown people" mean? It seems like such a superficially racist characterization. |
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| ▲ | ipaddr 18 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| In Europe it means Muslims and in North America is means South American. In China it means Indians. |
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| ▲ | andsoitis 12 hours ago | parent [-] | | > In Europe it means Muslims and in North America is means South American. In China it means Indians. Interesting. Thanks, I didn’t know that the Chinese used the phrase “brown people” to refer to Indians. Or that Mexicans (part of North America) use “brown people” to mean South Americans. It seems such a weird phrase to use. Is it white people who use the phrase? Or also brown people themselves? What about sub-Saharan Africa? Do they have a group they label “brown people”? Thanks for educating me. |
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| ▲ | DennisP 21 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I assumed that was what the commenter above was talking about, but perhaps I'm wrong. From the little I know about it, most of the immigrants that right-wing Europeans complain about are from places to the south. In case my understatement made things unclear, it's not the sort of thing I worry about at all. |
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| ▲ | andsoitis 21 hours ago | parent [-] | | > most of the immigrants.... are from places to the south. and hence "brown"? What does that terminology even mean? | | |
| ▲ | DennisP 20 hours ago | parent [-] | | Are you not aware of the protective effects of melanin from higher levels of UV? | | |
| ▲ | andsoitis 20 hours ago | parent [-] | | > Are you not aware of the protective effects of melanin from higher levels of UV? You're missing the point. | | |
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