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Re:7 billion people on 1 page by Cthulhu_ on Friday April 12, 2013 @09:04AM (#5538184)
Is there a particular color Africans or Asians prefer to associate themselves with moreso than the colors chosen there? Just curious. I don't see how associating a certain continent with a certain color would be racist.
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Re:7 billion people on 1 page by jere on Friday April 12, 2013 @10:10AM (#5538546)
A lot of racial slurs are based on a caricature of people's skin colors. Selecting a color that has historically had that problem and then intentionally assigning it to the target of those caricatures seems, if not malicious, at least completely oblivious.
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Re:7 billion people on 1 page by trhtrsh on Friday April 12, 2013 @12:43PM (#5539567)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-African_colours

At least some of the folks who claim to speak for Africa say "black" represents the people.

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