Is that racist?
I am genuinely asking. I'm brown and never minded being referred to as brown. It's my skin colour and as a description it's pretty apt. Isn't it the same thing?
(Smysha Tra la la!, Tue 1 Nov 2011, 23:26, 3 replies)

^kinda this^
my kids who are young, mixed race and pretty innocent to racism will describe someone as they physically see them - white, brown, tall, short, fat, thin. Is there anything wrong with that - course not !
( sutit only the crumbliest, flakiest posts, Wed 2 Nov 2011, 0:08, closed)

good for you. course it is not racist; just stating the obvious. Couldn't care less if I get called Pakeha.
(wino.NZ The Ayatollah of rock n' rolla..., Wed 2 Nov 2011, 8:25, closed)

I once worked with a mixed-race guy from Zimbabwe (this is not a limerick) who would be mortally offended if he was referred to as 'black' or indeed 'brown'.

The acceptable term in his opinion was 'beige'.

I couldn't think of a worst way to be described.
(BinDipper, Wed 2 Nov 2011, 12:56, closed)

Nah
Beige is just the right description for some people.

I'm like a bassett's all sorts of genetics: my skin colour does the following:-

Winter: pale
Summer: swarthy
All other times: beige
( admiral crunch holds the newsreader's nose squarely, Wed 2 Nov 2011, 14:16, closed)