We must be about the same age, golfnut, since I remember the change, and I still tend to use "Black." I remember being confused years later when I'd listen to the news and started hearing "African Americans." Okay, I thought, I have no problems with a group identifying itself. About this same time I was in graduate school, and I had a Black classmate. Out of the blue one day, she made a point of saying that she was not an African American and took offense at the label; her parents were from the Caribbean. So I asked her how she referred to herself. "Caribbean American." Well, duh, Cindy. ;-)

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What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea. --Gandhi

That is what I say.

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May your paradise always be green, you liberties always be full, and may the ignorance of you enemies not drive you to be pro-nuke.

"We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself
into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and
trying to lift himself up by the handle."-Winston Churchill

That is just silly.
I said it once somewhere else but I would love to respond "Well then you can just refer to me as an Irish, Spanish, Polish... long list following... American or we can just be rational about it."

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May your paradise always be green, you liberties always be full, and may the ignorance of you enemies not drive you to be pro-nuke.

"We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself
into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and
trying to lift himself up by the handle."-Winston Churchill

Really. When I see the label "White," I always think "AngloSaxon," and because I'm fair-haired, green-eyed, and light-skinned, I have to go with "White." There's nothing about my family, though, that says "Northern European" except for my own coloring. My mother's family comes from Sicily and my father's from Naples, all of them dark-haired and brown-eyed and various skin tones darker than mine. My mother assured me, though, that she never had a fling with the mailman. :azn: My theory has always been that along the way, and given the history of Sicily and Naples, some Norman genes got into our bloodline and are expressed in me.

And there you have it, more than you ever wanted to know about Cindy.

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What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea. --Gandhi

I'm a German-Irish-English-French-Dutch-Native-American. But it's a lot easier to say white, mutt, or Heinz 57.

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"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty." Thomas Jefferson

Walter Mondale: "George Bush doesn't have the manhood to apologize." George Bush: "Well, on the manhood thing, I'll put mine up against his any time."

American Indian and Welsh.

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Libertarians: Trying to get people to
mind their own business since 1971.
The Freedom Files

French, Scots, Irish, British, Portugese, and possibly Cherokee (one twice-great grandparent who is pretty much a mystery) here.

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Jarlaxle
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I know that I will never be politically correct
And I don't give a damn about my lack of ettiquette
--Jim Steinman

Scottish, Irish, and Mutt (my great grandmother on my father's side spent the last 20 years of her life into her family's geneology, going back over 600 years, my mother's side has no idea since they were farmers in America since the late 1700's and have no idea of their heritage before that).

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Set your destination with your heart, get there with your mind.

"The wisest men follow their own direction." - Euripides

Half pure Irish, half pure English. I joke that I always want to blow up my own car.

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"Oh, bother", said Pooh, as he chambered another round...

Do you want freedom from yourself?

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Set your destination with your heart, get there with your mind.

"The wisest men follow their own direction." - Euripides