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> > I'm not going to say anything about African-American vs. black, or about the story you linked to, but I would like to register my objection to the term "Caucasian". The Caucasus is in eastern Europe and western Asia near Turkey, and goes through Russia, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. All my ancestors are from Europe (or descended from Europeans), and it's mostly all northern and western Europe, nowhere near the Caucasus. I could understand using "European" instead of "white", but "Caucasian"? Where did that come from? What a strange term to use.
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> > -Eric Sleator
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> Years ago when I was young and foolish and stil in school, I went to see about getting my first part time job. It happened to be with Bell Telephone Co. I was given an application to fill out and on it was a small space for nationality. I wrote american.
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> When I was asked about that, I told her half German and the other half Scotch, Irish, Cherokee Indian with a little french thrown in. She said to me "Well I think we'll just leave it American"

Unless you hold passports (or other documents of citizenship) for those countries, you don't have those nationalities.

winter"Or did you mean 'ethnicity'?"mute