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

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

Why are black people called black when most are brown?

For that matter why are we still saying white people and black people? We dont say yellow people or red people anymore.

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".

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

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.

It's just the conventional name for them.

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

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.

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

I've known people who turn Green. ..

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.

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

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?

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