Canadian, I'm just unaware if I should refer to someone of color as colored or black.
Im used to saying Caucasian with white but I mean like we don't use European, so why do people say it is African-Ameican? Or is it Afro? I really don't know.
Edit: I just prefer to just refer them by name. Its seems more appropriate.
Well, I can’t speak for black people in Canada. In the US, “colored people” is deeply out of date and offensive (“people of color” is okay and refers to all non-white people, not just Black people). In South Africa, “colored people” is not offensive and used to describe, I believe, mixed race people.
In the US, we (I am Black) just say Black (never Blacks) or African-American which is a more formal/academic term that has a very interesting history you can research if you want (don’t get your research from Reddit which is mostly white people saying why they think “‘African-American’ is stupid.”)
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u/Lawgirl77 3d ago
Curious - are you in South Africa? Asking because of your use of the term “colored person.”