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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]White parent here. When we talk about skin color we say lighter and darker. I've never actually said "white" or "black" because those aren't accurate descriptions. My DH has dark olive skin and I'm super pale so we have a lot of shades in our family alone. That made it easier to extend to other people. Sometimes skin is lighter, sometimes darker. No big deal. We can get into ethnicities and cultural differences as my kids become aware of them. When they were very little they just talked about the differences they could see. [/quote] And Asians? Do you say "yellow" when you speak of them? And Native Americans..."red?" How about Hispanics- those "brown" skinned people? Being white and trying to "extend" to other people based on skin color sounds terrible. [/quote]
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