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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Thanks for the many encouraging responses.

To the "visible minority" poster, do you realize that term is a Canadian construct that is considered racist by the United Nations?

http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=f469b36e-c587-40e7-98e5-3aa50a371318&k=23802&__federated=1[/quote]

VREG is a term used by researchers of color in the field of multicultural counseling. I think it was first used by a black American psychologist in discussing stages of black identity development. [/quote]

I'm sure pp used VREG in an innocent non-racist intent way, just as many continue to us the problematic "African American" instead of black.

However, as noted in the linked article Canada's Employment Equity Act defines "visible minorities" as "persons, other than aboriginal people, who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour."

To the United Nations committee, highlighting a certain group does not appear to be consistent with Article One of the convention, which says racial discrimination occurs when equitable treatment is upset by "any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin."

Speaking at the committee grilling of Canada last month, committee member Patrick Thornberry went further.

"The use of the term seemed to somehow indicate that 'whiteness' was the standard, all others differing from that being visible," says the British international law professor, according to UN note-takers.

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