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[alway]

Price of chicken a leading indicator to unrest?

Yep; as far as the average person is concerned, they don't really give a crap about politics enough to risk going out in the streets and demonstrating. But when they can't feed their children, they're going to be protesting in the streets until they can.

[SalmonGod]

Saudi riot police fire live rounds on Shiite protesters in Qatif

[Valid_Dark]

If someone is from Egypt, but now lives in America, do they count as a African-American?

[Helgoland]

If someone is from Egypt, but now lives in America, do they count as a African-American?

Haven't you watched Bruno? Everyone who lives in Africa counts as African-American

[Valid_Dark]

ohh yeah~ good point!

[MetalSlimeHunt]

If someone is from Egypt, but now lives in America, do they count as a African-American?

And this is why enforced racial terminology is silly and inaccurate . The same problem arises with white South Africans who move to America.

[scriver]

I think calling people who lived in America for generations anything like "[Origin] Americans" is pretty silly as well. There's not especially much African, Irish, Polish, Chinese, whatever, about them. "African American" does stand out as especially stupid though, as it's the second largest continent on the planet and doesn't say anything at all about where you come from and is only a "racial" epithet anyway.

[Zangi]

Isn't African American just the nicepolitically correct way to say Black?

[DJ]

Is Black really that offensive?

[MetalSlimeHunt]

It isn't offensive, but some people get up in arms about it for the sake of total political correctness. Far fewer these days than ten or twenty years ago.

[Frumple]

S'probably some weird ass cultural color bias crap going on to some degree, too -- not talking skin color, per se, but just color in general. Fair chunk of the states are a little strange about that, and the color black has a bit of negative connotation in American culture for... whatever reason. So a... color charged (as goddamn ridiculous a thing to say as that is, but I've encountered a disturbing amount of people that buy into it) word might be something folks are trying to avoid. I can sorta' see it, and it's not an entirely unfounded position.

I do kinda' wish there was something more directly analogous to caucasian for the darker skin tones, though. I'm not entirely sure most of the population knows what the hell caucasian means beyond the paler skin tones. Know I don't, heh.

[scriver]

I don't like "Caucasian". Too much race-biological heritage. It also strange to see be people use it for "white Europeans" to me, as I always counted in North Africans and Middle Easterners in it. Then again, I count them as pretty damn "white" as well.

I wish we could just transcend to using the actual colour of somebody's skin for them, just like we do with hair colour. No more "black" and "white", just different shades of brown, tan, and pink. Well, redheads do tend to be pretty white if they stay indoors.

[Helgoland]

Yeah, it's all about categorizing anyway. So "black", "white", "asian" (better than yellow as a descriptive term I think, because most chinese/japanese people have fairly light skin) is easy - and the connotation is not inheritent to the word itself.

A well-accepted point of view is that the way we speak determines the way we think. Therefore we should use the word "nigger" in a non-racist sense to prevent people from being racist.

[Duuvian]

Saudi riot police fire live rounds on Shiite protesters in Qatif

I'd like the US government to make a statement on this. Perhaps it would be a good time for those observers to be sent in. Perhaps prior to open revolt is the time for observation.

[Felius]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-19146380#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Syria Prime Minister defected to the opposition. Can't say if he actually supports it or just knew what direction the wind was blowing. Probably the latter.