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Re:I Was Google’s Head of International Relations by Izkata on Thursday January 02, 2020 @06:11PM (#21940982)
"People of color" is the modern "black" (African heritage), and excludes dark skin colors from other locales. "Brown people", weird as it sounds as a phrase, is broader and includes dark-skinned groups like Middle-Eastern, but I think arbitrarily excludes Asian.
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Re:I Was Google’s Head of International Relations by ethbro on Thursday January 02, 2020 @06:33PM (#21941169)
Really? I'm not sure that narrow of a definition is the commonly used one.

Wikipedia has it as even broader than my use: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_color

I've generally heard it as either "non-white", "non-white, with emphasis on 'brown' skin tones", or "non-white and not covered by a more specific group" in common real world use, depending on the context.

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