> a person of color
There's one of your problems. Am I a person of no colour?
Your (and this isn't a direct attack on you) use of language contributes to the situation while it is trying to be softly softly.
There's one of your problems. Am I a person of no colour?
Your (and this isn't a direct attack on you) use of language contributes to the situation while it is trying to be softly softly.
Maybe it doesn't have as much play outside the U.S. but the term PoC seems to work well here. For the whole semantic argument I'll point to http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_color .
We also have IC codes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC_codes
Code Ethnicity
IC1 White - North European
IC2 White - South European
IC3 Black
IC4 Asian (in the UK Asian refers to people from the Indian subcontinent like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal)
IC5 Chinese, Japanese, or other South East Asian
IC6 Arabic or North African
IC9 Unknown