Obama appearantly can also speak "Negro" when necessary

[Centurion1]

Well my apologies gentlemen. My real point was yes you have blacks and Arabs and Indians (probably quite a few more Arabs than the US actually, especially France) but the African-American does not have anything really resembling a traditional African social life..... in stereotype of course. this is what i meant to imply, that you all have few African-Americans not simply blacks. i mistakenly used the word black instead of African-American

And actually Louis i have visited a few European countries, mostly to visit extended family but over the course of my almost 18 years i have been to Croatia, Russia, Ireland, Britain (wales to be precise), and northern France (though only for a few days with some like second cousins or something).

I have also been to Mexico (and not just Tijuana) as well as Canada, lol.


my apologies if my rubbish offended anyone.

[A Very Super Market]

That man is standing irresponsibly close to the train tracks. Coincidentally, he doesn't look very French.

I see this "negro" gaffe as simply that. And old man using old terminology. It is quite awkward, but not much more so than the kind old lady that can't help but say "Oriental" in your presence.

[HoreTore]

That man is standing irresponsibly close to the train tracks. Coincidentally, he doesn't look very French.

He doesn't?

He looks very french to me....

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

lol i always forget that honestly most of you europeans rarely see black people. while over in america they make up 17% of the population. i mean im surronded by black people where i live in the midatlantic and im not even in Mississippi or alabama where the populations are humongous.

We see them often enough, it's not as though we don't have have non-white people. And you're wrong about the accent, over here they affect a pseudo-Carribean one.

I actually don't bother capitalizing the term "euro."

You still use it in a racist context, to define me as a person based on my continent. It's like calling someone an "African" and meaning an ignorant savage.

[Pannonian]

You still use it in a racist context, to define me as a person based on my continent. It's like calling someone an "African" and meaning an ignorant savage.

Gah. "African" as an intended insult is so quaint. "Mongoloid" is where it's at.

[A Very Super Market]

He doesn't?

He looks very french to me....

After some concerted visual fondling, I can say that he looks more like Niko Bellic than a Frenchmen.

[HoreTore]

After some concerted visual fondling, I can say that he looks more like Niko Bellic than a Frenchmen.

Well yeah, he's only one person, of course he doesn't look like frechmen......

[Seamus Fermanagh]

Please keep this thread on theme. I do NOT want to shut down a DevDave thread because of other posters.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

my apologies if my rubbish offended anyone.

It isn't rubbish. It's all in where the European has been and where they live.

[Subotan]

lol i always forget that honestly most of you europeans rarely see black people. while over in america they make up 17% of the population

No way is it that high. 12% is more accurate.

but over the course of my almost 18 years i have been to Croatia, Russia, Ireland, Britain (wales to be precise), and northern France (though only for a few days with some like second cousins or something).

Those are all almost exclusively white(Except maybe North France)

You still use it in a racist context, to define me as a person based on my continent. It's like calling someone an "African" and meaning an ignorant savage

I don't mind it at all.

[HoreTore]

No way is it that high. 12% is more accurate.

I've always thought it was 13%....

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

And actually Louis i have visited a few European countries, mostly to visit extended family but over the course of my almost 18 years i have been to Croatia, Russia, Ireland, Britain (wales to be precise), and northern France (though only for a few days with some like second cousins or something).

Russia and Croatia are almost completely white, Ireland is almost as monotone, and in rural Wales "Black" can still refer to the Northern Welsh with dark hair; if "Northern France" actually means Brittany then you've basically visited the five places least affected by immigration.

I don't mind it at all.

I don't mind being called European, but Methuselah uses "Euro" the way he complains about other using the "N-word". It's the same as being called "Whitey", which is also derogatory.

[Husar]

I don't mind it at all.

It's funny because he capitalizes first nation but not Euro.

And HoreTore, I think everybody has their own prejudices about who looks french. To say someone looks french or not already is applying prejudice to the looks of the person, isn't it?

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

It's funny because he capitalizes first nation but not Euro.

Ouch

And HoreTore, I think everybody has their own prejudices about who looks french. To say someone looks french or not already is applying prejudice to the looks of the person, isn't it?

And Ouch!