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Why are white people called white when they are more like pink?

Only albinos are white.

Posted - August 14, 2016

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  • 6988

     I'm tan. My sister is white. I have no pink skin except maybe my, uh, personal areas.

      August 14, 2016 3:46 PM MDT
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  • 304
    Why are black people called black when most are brown?
      August 14, 2016 4:03 PM MDT
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  • 304
    For that matter why are we still saying white people and black people? We dont say yellow people or red people anymore.
      August 14, 2016 4:05 PM MDT
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  • Well white people made these terms up... so... ask them. I think it has something to do with white being "pure" and black being "evil".
      August 14, 2016 4:22 PM MDT
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  • Interesting question. .. Probably marketing ... White has generally been associated with purity and all that stuff ... Wouldn't be surprised if someone decided to position that particular colour as the one to be
      August 14, 2016 4:23 PM MDT
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  • 32527
    I don't know. None of the colors we use to describe people are accurate. White, black,brown, eed, yellow....


    Except smurfs...smurfs are blue.
      August 14, 2016 4:25 PM MDT
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  • Bez

    2148

    It's just the conventional name for them.

      August 14, 2016 4:47 PM MDT
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  • Bez

    2148

    Or, in your case, right-wing. Lol:)

      August 14, 2016 4:48 PM MDT
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  • They're just approximations, like so-called "red onions" or "blue cheese". But really, we are all various shades of brown. There's adequate cause to see similarities rather than differences.
      August 14, 2016 4:53 PM MDT
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  • 2052

    Some pure Africans are a very beautiful dark black with undertones of royal blue. 

      August 14, 2016 5:48 PM MDT
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  • I've known people who turn Green. ..
      August 14, 2016 6:30 PM MDT
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  • 2500

    I think my surgeon told me that we're all pink on the inside.

    But with rare exception white people aren't strictly white and black people aren't strictly black. We're all somewhere in between those two extremes.

      August 14, 2016 6:48 PM MDT
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  • 5835

    Chinese are yellow because two Wongs don't make a white.

      August 15, 2016 1:48 AM MDT
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  • 46117

    Well, kind of pinky brown actually.  You know, FLESH color?

    But why quibble.  You are right.  They (we) are NOT white.  But then Asians are not yellow either are they?

      August 15, 2016 1:49 AM MDT
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  • 96

    'cause of the pointed hats & the robes they wear....white

      August 15, 2016 2:47 AM MDT
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