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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I find it makes for more descriptive story telling. Nothing more. Why be ashamed of our differences?[/quote] this is pretty much what I was thinking before I even opened the thread. It's a descriptor that paints the picture of the story. Do you say someone lives in a house or do you say they live in a mansion,  a dump,  a town house,  a modern house etc. Description is what makes the listener keep listening. [/quote]

Just curious, how often to you point out that someone is white when you tell a story?  Or do you only point out when someone is black or Asian or Indian?  And if so, why is that?[/quote]

Not PP, but ALL THE TIME, I mention details about a person.  I don't say "white," but I say other irrelevant details, like "New Jersey Italian" or "Boston Irish," even if it is sort of irrelevant, but just to recreate the scene.

Sometimes people include racial details because they are saying something racist.  But sometimes they are just including details for the sake of including details.  I wouldn't up and label someone racist because they mentioned a person's race/nationality/ethnic makeup.  If we get to the point where you can't even mention a person's race without being called racist, then we have actually gone backwards.  I know people who will go out of their way NOT to mention race, and it strikes me that they have issues.  Racism and prejudice are bad things, but being uncomfortable about race or afraid to mention it also seems to me to be a bad thing.

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