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Old 09-11-2011, 09:12 AM   #40
Riprincattiva

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That is one of the reasons the color schemes are flawed in the ethnicity name game.
I think people often call brown people, people whom are darker than olive (or olive skinned) with none/minimal SSA features. I say that because I have seen people call someone who has visible SSA features "black", to later call someone else of the same shade "brown", when the difference was in their facial features and not skin color, which really made me think of the distinction between black and brown and has me a bit confused still.

Someone can be brown skinned, but can look ''black'', and someone can be ''black'' skinned, but look Indian (what are they genetically? predominantly Asians?).

So I guess it depends on which meaning you give to words as black and brown, they can be interpret in different ways and have different meanings.
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