After sending out invitations to a belated elopement party, I was suddenly fielding calls from friends who wanted to wear saris but were worried that it might be disrespectful.

Yay for multiculturalism and yay for a laugh!

Many of us are as confused as everyone else. We’re a large group bound together by only one factor — we’re not white. So different things matter in different degrees to all of us, it’s near impossible to speak as one.

I don’t even like the term people of colour. The first time I heard it I thought of the Smurfs because they’re blue.

  • DagwoodIII@piefed.socialEnglish
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    23 hours ago

    It can also be generational. I know some women in their 60s who call themselves ‘chicks.’ That was the slang when they were young and they still like it. Younger women might not agree.