white

[victor steinbok]

The most recent post on by Eugene Volokh discusses "Asian as White". He
starts by quoting a comment from another thread:

http://goo.gl/9RbWM

> [A]llow a white Southerner to point out something about casual use of the
> word “white”: sometimes it just means “not black”. Meaning, believe it or
> not, that in common usage, a school (or gathering, or club, or church, or
> whatever) in the South that includes no black people is “all-white”. This is
> true even when there are, for instance, people of Korean or Indian ancestry
> in said group. Whether this is anthropologically correct, or PC, or even
> nice is beside the point. It’s just one of the common, casual usages.


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