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Originally Posted by Ammi
...so in South Africa ‘coloured’ is a specific term used to denote a multi-heritage, is that what you’re saying, Lime...but the term in the U.K. and indeed also in Canada where Mokka is from...does not imply the same meaning...it’s an out-dated terminology that implied a ‘non-white’ skin colouring and the ‘white colouring’ being considered ‘the norm’....
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I think that's the issue really, the white-by-default. Either "default" or "coloured" which makes it quite a loaded term.