HUMAN.

'Lucy' was never considered to belong to Homo Sapiens Sapiens. And with just a few bones recovered, the theory (and that's all it is or has ever been) that she was even ever in the lineage of what could be defined as human - is still up in the air.

The article I've linked to is from 2004. Much has changed even since then. But, Lucy...being upgraded to modern man? Nah

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The best thing you can do for your fellow,
next to rousing his conscience, is - not to give him things
to think about, but to wake things up that are in him...
to make him think things for himself - George MacDonald

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.
Theodore Roosevelt

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Mr Roosevelt was speaking about being an "American" not "Irish-America", "Japanese-American" ect. American first!
He believed the First has top placement in your thoughts and heart. Home is were your heart is so if your not an American of X decent ... go home. This is not just for African decent!

Found the right quote:
We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.
Theodore Roosevelt

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Lord help those who want to become the proverbial American in every facet.

The Irish Gaelic term, still in common usage, for 'Black People' is 'Daoine Gorm.' It means 'Blue People.'

'Speire Gorm' means 'Blue Skies.'

(Lovely language, Gaelic!)

xx Steph

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"I would do anything for love, including the thing Meatloaf won't do... (In fact, I sometimes insist upon it...)"xx SF

Oh it's a black cat? Honestly, I never noticed...

I think these term makes it easier to separate us and them Be proud of where you came from but if you are a citizen of this country you are an American

My Black friends and acquaintances have universally preferred Black. My American Indian friends have preferred Indian instead of Native American. My Hawaiian friend preferred Hawaiian. My Hispanic friends have preferred Hispanic, Latino, Latina. I generally ask people what they prefer and then call them that, even if they say Polack. We're all Americans, even those of us whose ancestors were speaking French here before there was a US.

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Sensei's altimeter is reading 9000'. Suddenly the engine noise level drops a lot. The engine on the door side of the plane is quiet.

We hear, "Shit! Fuck me!" from the cockpit, then the pilot yells, "Everybody out! Now!"

Airgasms Induce Orgasms

I was out west not too long ago and I met a group of people that we would call "Indian" or "Native American". They told us that they prefer "First Nation" (the name of their people when translated into English).

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i had friends from Haiti who were black and did not consider themselves African in anyway and african american bugged them so i say black

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littlemissbitch ~ professional face ripper offer, at your service..

This is not justification, but explanation. Because we are a nation of relatively recent predominantly European immigrants, there is a lot of residual cultural identity among many of the sub-cultures. This is true even for the European sub-cultures and more true when they are visibly distinctive upon meeting them. Many parents still encourage marriage within the culture and attempt to make children feel guilty for abandoning "our people". Much of the immigration from particular regions occurred en masse and, because there is strength in numbers, people of a particular culture tended to live together. Assimilation into the broader culture was slowed by attempts to retain the cultural identity of ancestors, but it is considered rude to tell the people of a sub-culture, "You are not assimilating fast enough. Throw out your biases.", especially when they experience some level of bigotry.

Now add in the atrocities committed by the majority culture against the minority cultures and there is still tension/friction. I guess European equivalents would be Jews in Germany, Catholics in Northern Ireland or Basques in Spain, but add in visible physical distinctions like skin color or eye or nose shape. Now you have a situation where there is an acceptable way to label them, one that acknowledges the difference in cultures without judgements of inferior or superior, and unacceptable ways to label them.

So no, when introducing someone, you don't necessarily stress their cultural heritage. You leave that up to them. But if you are talking to one person about another person, you might say, "My friend is Black (or Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Asian, Indian, Italian, Hispanic, Greek, Catholic, etc.), to convey information that may or may not be particularly meaningful to either other person. Some people deliberately limit who they will consider being friends with (or who they will have sex with) to people who are culturally similar enough. Other people will shun their own culture and deliberately seek friends (and sex partners) from other sub-cultures. Other people just won't care, but might still meet people who care. Over time, assimilation and genetic mixing occurs and the cultural significance slowly fades.

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Sensei's altimeter is reading 9000'. Suddenly the engine noise level drops a lot. The engine on the door side of the plane is quiet.

We hear, "Shit! Fuck me!" from the cockpit, then the pilot yells, "Everybody out! Now!"

Airgasms Induce Orgasms

Black, there is not such person as an African-American. You can be an American-African, if you came from Africa, and became a citizen. You don't need to be Black either. But Black is what Black people are, not hyphenated Americans. Hyphenated Anything is wrong.

Being that here in my country there wasn't that much discrimination and all that, I prefer to use Black. Some people say that "black" is offensive, but in my opinion is just a race, period. Otherwise we could not say oriental, white, or whatever.

I just realized, but listen to this first. I didn't like you, you were quite irritating, arrogant, not to mention cynical, and all those monologs and how convinced you are in your 100% right.. I tried to be rude, I tried to mock you, I tried with sarcasm, to ignore your posts.. nothing, I mean nothing didn't disturb you in what you wanted to explain to us at that particular moment for that particular post and it hit me few seconds ago, you are like Sheldon!! It doesn't really matter if I agree with you, but all that information you have, please share, I will take what I'll consider worth memorizing for the rest I'll just say thank you! ha, I am soo sending you FR for sure!!! Sheldon:D

Since I don't want completely to highjack this tread..
I think that this kind of a classification (by physical appearance in this case, color of the skin) in business, academics or any other institutional meetings, would be completely unprofessional, rude and totally unnecessary. However if i want to hook-up my girlfriend with a guy, I will say. He is fun, not so tall, you guys have the same taste in... , he is Black, he is .. So yes, if I can have any kind of a saying in this topic because I am not Black, I would chose that.