| I seriously doubt that I respond to everything you post. TBH I don recall responding at all. That said, my experience is that "white" is not used, at least not in the way it is here. If your experience is different, then we disagree and that's fine: it's ok to disagree ya know. If it IS used in the way that you mention, with a different meaning, and in the context of different "conceptions of race," then we don't really disagree, but that is what I mean when I say it is irrelevant. Even within the English language we have words that have different connotations in different regions. Race in the US has a heightened significance (and history) that infects us (unfortunately) to the core, and in a way that is sui generis. (E.g., in the South American context, Lin-Manuel Miranda is white, in the sense that he is caucasian, but in the US, he fits the non-white descriptor sufficient to have starred in a musical calling for that.) |
