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   From: ojevind.lang@bredband.net   
      
   "Julian Bradfield"  skrev i meddelandet   
   news:slrnifio6a.v9l.jcb@krk.inf.ed.ac.uk...   
      
   >On 2010-12-03, Noel Q. von Schneiffel    
   >wrote:   
   >> Not at all. There are also many shades of the Pink Race, commonly   
   > known as "white". The average Italian, for example, is noticeably more   
   > "brown-ish" than the average Swede. Still - especially if placed next   
   > to a really brown person, such as (most) Pakistani - one has to group   
   > the Italian with the Swede into both "white" and "Caucasian".   
      
   > Depends on your Italian. Many southern Italians are darker-skinned   
   than many northern Indians. Whatever cue people use to classify one as   
   "white" and the other as "not white", it isn't entirely skin colour.   
   Of course, your old-fashioned British buffer of Tolkien's generation   
   *didn't* count such Italians (or maybe any Italians) as "white". They   
   were "wops".   
   I might think more in terms of the difference between Prussians and   
   Bavarians.   
      
   I think more in terms of people from Wilmersdorf as opposed to Prenzlauer   
   Berg.   
      
   Öjevind   
      
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