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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]I'm inclined to agree that when POC is used it's primarily by blacks to mean blacks. Rarely is it used for other races, who have quite different histories. [/b]

I was an expat for more than a decade in the Middle East and SE Asia and the affluent Middle Easterners and Asians are extremely well dressed and would be right at home in a dressy Southern university. [b]OP's implication that to dress nicely means you can't be a "person of color" is bizarre [/b]and quite racist.[/quote]

A few of the pp defined POC as skin color which is only one definition. Within the black community your can have many different skin tones.

That brings me to the second point and I agree with the Southern dressy comment being bizarre. I’m not sure what is more offensive, the insistence that there is only one way to be x - Black, Asian etc. or that the people defining it are not within that group.  It would never occur to me to tell someone all about what it’s like to be a 5’3 woman growing up in California with red hair living near LA, what they are thinking, how they should behave, how they should dress, explaining to you why they are only applying to UCs schools and wouldn’t want to attend x school when I have not lived a day of my life in that existence.  And still would not do it even if one my best friends was that person. [/quote]

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