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Colours.

I internet searched & indiscriminately took the first picture that showed up of an "Arab person" & "Black person" I found to display the colour blindness we seem to have as planet Earth in light of this new trend of Arab/mixed race people referring to themselves as "Brown people". Why not beige people? Why are white people not called peach people? I'm still wondering why all these inaccurate descriptions of the actual colours of races. In my Zulu blogs, I'll often exclusively use the term "abantu abansundu" ("brown people") to ensure we're being clear what colour we are. Trans-Saharan African people range from light pink (albinos) to a really dark brown which looks black, but with the majority of us being a common brown in colour. So, I think we must make the terms peach people, beige people & brown people commonplace so we are clear & no confusion arises. Because even if races do range in tones, the overwhelming majority of them in each race is respectively either peach (white), brown (black) or beige (yellow). 

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