I moved from England to Canada. Supermarkets round here use different terms, but one of them has Bri’ish imports in the “ethnic” aisle. Just goes to show how weird the term is, lol.
In the US, that isn’t the case. “White” is treated as the default, and everyone else is “othered.” It is short hand for “not Caucasian.” It has changed now, but even hair products for black hair were labeled with signs as the ‘ethnic hair’ section for the majority of my life.
It has the same vibe as referring to one person as “diverse,” as if that is a quality that an individual can have and not something that only makes sense for a group of people.
Thoroughly dislike the wording ethnic women. As if US white was not an ethnic group.
sir, this is a greentexty’s.
I moved from England to Canada. Supermarkets round here use different terms, but one of them has Bri’ish imports in the “ethnic” aisle. Just goes to show how weird the term is, lol.
It’s clearly short for “an ethnicity other than ours/mine.”
In the US, that isn’t the case. “White” is treated as the default, and everyone else is “othered.” It is short hand for “not Caucasian.” It has changed now, but even hair products for black hair were labeled with signs as the ‘ethnic hair’ section for the majority of my life.
It has the same vibe as referring to one person as “diverse,” as if that is a quality that an individual can have and not something that only makes sense for a group of people.