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Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote:
> On 2024-05-30 12:03:08 +0000, Antonio Marques said:
>
>> Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote:
>>> On 2024-05-29 10:59:23 +0000, Ross Clark said:
>>>
>>>> African-American writer and activist.
>>>
>>> African American? She was born in the USA of American parents, lived in
>>> the USA, worked in the USA, and died in the USA. She was American. She
>>> may have had some ancestors from Africa, but that doesn't make her
>>> African. I have very recent ancestors from Ireland (including my
>>> mother), but I am not Irish.
>>
>> And here I was, thinking you came from Kernow.
>
> No. "Cornish" is not a Cornish name: what would be the point of callig
> someone Cornish if everyone around is Cornish.
? One would think it even less of a point of calling someone Cornish if
they were not, well, Cornish in some way.
> The name is much more
> common in Devon, just as "Devenish" is more common in Somerset than it
> is in Devon.
>> Tread carefully, sir.
>>
>> An unabashedly racist* relative of mine (an older generation, Archie Bunker
>> type, still a great guy), whenever he wanted to indicate a black person's
>> race respectfully*, said 'who has african blood'.
>>
>> (*) The subtype who knows a number of blacks, talks about 'them', but also
>> enjoys having meals with 'them' and would stand for 'them' where needed. I
>> guess the other subtype is worse.
>>
>> (**) We don't have a word for that in portuguese. While in english 'black'
>> is neutral, in portuguese (preto) it can be construed as derogatory. We
>> have fiddled with 'negro', sounds too stilted and hence is a problem.
>> Incredible as it may seem, I've heard people refer to black people who are
>> portuguese and have remote ancestors in eastern Africa as
>> 'african-american'...
>
>
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