in article %Ms1d.19305$vE2.15996@newssvr27.news.prodigy.com, necoandjeff at
spam@schrepfer.com wrote on 9/13/04 7:34 PM:

> 
> But yet you have no trouble using the word Oriental, even though at one time
> it referred to a geographic region that encompassed something quite
> different from just China, Korea and Japan?
> 
> Anyway, I agree. But it isn't just geographic terms that create problems.
> Any attempt at classifying people by ethnicity is bound to run into trouble
> sooner or later, whether it is by geography, nationality, religion or
> whatever. And it is getting increasingly difficult. My best friend is half
> Danish and half Burmese and a U.S. citizen who speaks native English, native
> Dutch and damn good Japanese, and his wife is Japanese American who speaks
> native English and native Japanese. I don't know how you would even begin to
> classify my friend, let alone their son.
> 
> Jeff
> 

He's a harbinger of the future. Perhaps people like him will be called
"Earthlings."
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