communities of color

[Wilson Gray]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Indigo Som <indigo at well.com> wrote:
> "How common is it for Asians, particularly the Chinese, to regard 'X
> of color' as including Asians?"

As your experience indicates, a better phraseology is,

"How common is it for Asians, particularly the Chinese, to regard 'X
of color' as including Asians, _when 'X of color' is generally
regarded as referring primarily, if not exclusively, to people of some
degree of sub-Saharan descent_?"

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