People of Colour

[samvara]

This is probably an incredibly stupid question but when Americans use the phrase People of Colour does it specifically mean of African origin, or does it mean not Anglo/European?

Wiki has stuff to say on the subject but also says you can go either way which isn't exactly helpful. I'm curious to know where Spanish, Japanese, Chinese etc. fall.

ETA: Breakdown of Character Fates and Race for Supernatural S3

Comments

[poisontaster]

It generally means anyone non-Caucasian.

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

Thank you - I'm doing the race breakdown now and using my somewhat dodgy racial recognition skills to try and assign Y/N.

[poisontaster]

Glad to help! I'm interested to see your results. :D

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

Appreciated!

Results (http://community.livejournal.com/spn_heavymeta/146258.html) are ... depressing.

[poisontaster]

True...but no less than I'd respected in that regard.

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure what I was expecting but I'm not shocked it turned out this way.

[poisontaster]

*facepalm* Yes. Expected. Gah. I hate it when I make stupid mistakes like that. Thank you for knowing what I meant.

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

Given my lack of respect for this kind of script writing it could be called a cunning Freudian slip!