Hmmmmmmmmm, Bob.
I thought I cought a glimpse of a swastika button pinned to the underside of
your lapel, but now I am sure I did.
Boris
Well, Boris, white people are typically referred to as Anglo-Saxon, and
Anglo-Saxon is a combination of Angles and Saxons, so I suppose some might
think true Anglo-Saxons (A lot of Brits) would be the whitest of the while.
Now, where the Irish figure into this I don't know. They are neither Angle nor
Saxon. And, don't forget, the old ethnographic term for white was "caucasian,"
which derives from individuals in the Caucasus region, which also are neither
Angle nor Saxon. But then "caucasian," my dictionary says, is now a potentially
pejorative term rather than an ethnographic distinction. Perhaps that's because
it was coined by a German, who _might_ have had Saxon in him. As someone from
what we now refer to as "Eastern Europe," you are not Angle, nor are you Saxon,
but according to the old German, you qualify as "caucasian."
Which means, of course, that as a descendant of both the British and Irish
races, with a bit of Scot and German tossed in, I am whiter than you.
(Hehehe--no offense intended, in case the tone of my response didn't translate
across cyberspace.)
Ain't it a wonderful world we live in?
--Bob
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