Well African-American is only one subset of People of Colour. So both are still active.
Personally I think African-American is a useful term because it differentiates people who arose from the history of slavery. They are different from other black groups both genetically and culturally.
Mongolians was used to refer to all East Asians. I'm not sure if South Asians were included. I think that logic is that almost all of Asia was part of the Mongol empire at one point so it was a good group descriptor.
As for Devo - it was an insult at the time. That was part of the point of the song. I was there. :-)
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Date: 2012-10-26 03:18 pm (UTC)Personally I think African-American is a useful term because it differentiates people who arose from the history of slavery. They are different from other black groups both genetically and culturally.
Mongolians was used to refer to all East Asians. I'm not sure if South Asians were included. I think that logic is that almost all of Asia was part of the Mongol empire at one point so it was a good group descriptor.
As for Devo - it was an insult at the time. That was part of the point of the song. I was there. :-)