"Arri London" > wrote in message
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> Frogleg wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 07:28:37 -0600, Arri London >
> > wrote:
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> > >Here in NM, anyone who isn't Hispanic, Asian, Black or Native American
> > >is normally referred to as 'Anglo'. It isn't a reference to a
particular
> > >nationality. It means she was white, which she was.
> >
> > In 'Red Sky at Morning,' Richard Bradford's novel based on a somewhat
> > fictionalized 1940s Santa Fe, a character says "We only recognize 3
> > kinds of people in Sagrado: Anglos, Indians, and Natives."..."But what
> > about the Negro?" "I already explained that to you. He's an Anglo.
> > That is, he's an Anglo unless you're differentiating between him and
> > an Indian. Then he's 'white.'"
>
> LOL that wouldn't work any more. The Black community would tend to
> resent being called Anglo.

But it isn't right when white people who aren't Anglo resent being called
Anglo? ;-)

Charlie