NZ Scott

A lot of these entries are not from the BC (before Christ?) era. For example, the shots from Palenque and Chitzen Itza. I wanted to enter a shot from Angkor, but did not because it is only 1000...

For those non-Americans among us who are struggling to understand why the golf remarks have created controversy, this column in the Guardian helps explain...

Some nice shots in that series - especially the very first photo. Well done. As I mentioned in one of my earlier postings, Hitech has recently started making filters that fit the Cokin-A holder. I...

It's difficult for a non-US person to see any offense in the context of his remark. Given that the golf dude is a European and speaking English as a second language, it is completely natural that...

No, the term "coloured" was not used in the US. It was used in Europe, by a European, refering to another European, who has coloured friends in the US.

Wow, that was only 53 years ago. To the credit of the US, things have improved a lot since then in your country. S

Yes, I do realise that Jewish people are not defined by their religion. But I don't understand why it would be a silly question to ask my friend how he self-identifies ethnically.

I don't understand this. Surely a person who was racist against black people wouldn't have black friends? I'm not talking about subservient relationships, but actual friendships. S

I think I understand. You're saying that a White person can marry an East Asian person because they're not racist against Asians, but that they might still be racist towards some other ethnic groups?

So what? Doesn't mean they're racist.

Aussies certainly don't worry too much about political correctness, but a lot of Kiwis do agonise over these sorts of things. It's probably because right from the start, and until quite recently,...

I don't understand why it's a silly question. I think that these issues of identity can be very complex. My friend's father is a full black African Christian. His mother is Jewish, which according...

I don't think of "Muslims" as being Middle Eastern. I think this might be a US perception, because of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

I have a Jewish friend who's coloured. I think he would call himself "black", although I haven't asked him directly.

Thanks for the education. I didn't realise things were so extreme. S

Really? I would think that it must be rare for a racist honky to marry a coloured person. Extremely rare, in fact. S

Thanks for clarifying that for us.

Well, this thread has been news to me as well because I didn't know that US people thought "coloured" was a bad word either. I knew that "nigger" was insulting, of course. You have to remember that...

WOW!!!!!! Really?