The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #45951   Message #3198614
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
30-Jul-11 - 03:11 PM
Thread Name: American ancestry
Subject: RE: American ancestry
"Ethiopians" as a term for Africans seems to have been discarded, fortunately. "Caucasian" in this sense never appears to have caught on outside North America. Both words have similar racist overtones.