Okies, let me ask you this, if it's not too rude or nosy a question: when you say you're red, do you mean "red" like someone else would call the color red, or do you mean it the way coffee-with-cream-color people say they're black?
The reason I ask; I've known a fair number of Native folk (including our Morchalad, who's half Alaskan Indian) and I've never seen any of them as "red" except when they've been out in the hot sun or something. For that matter, if I went out in the hot sun for a couple of hours (assuming I was somewhere that had hot sun in April) I would come back true flaming scarlet, far redder than I've ever seen any darker-skinned person get. Yet people wouldn't then call me "red-skinned", just sunburned. So what's up with that?
Morchal's skin doesn't really have any notably red tones in it at all, this time of year - he's not as pale as me, of course, but he's pretty pale, and his underlying skin-tone is sort of gold - yet he'd still be called "red", yes? LOL, actually I find it pretty funny, that a Scandahoovian like myself can be both darker than a 'black' person and redder than a 'redskin'. I don't see how anyone ever keeps the whole concept straight in their minds.
*grins* Tonto was smarter and cuter than the Lone Ranger. Kato was smarter and cuter than the Green Hornet too - I didn't find out till I was grown up, that he'd been played by Bruce Lee; then it was, like, "well, no wonder!"
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Date: 2005-04-16 05:47 am (UTC)The reason I ask; I've known a fair number of Native folk (including our Morchalad, who's half Alaskan Indian) and I've never seen any of them as "red" except when they've been out in the hot sun or something. For that matter, if I went out in the hot sun for a couple of hours (assuming I was somewhere that had hot sun in April) I would come back true flaming scarlet, far redder than I've ever seen any darker-skinned person get. Yet people wouldn't then call me "red-skinned", just sunburned. So what's up with that?
Morchal's skin doesn't really have any notably red tones in it at all, this time of year - he's not as pale as me, of course, but he's pretty pale, and his underlying skin-tone is sort of gold - yet he'd still be called "red", yes? LOL, actually I find it pretty funny, that a Scandahoovian like myself can be both darker than a 'black' person and redder than a 'redskin'. I don't see how anyone ever keeps the whole concept straight in their minds.
*grins* Tonto was smarter and cuter than the Lone Ranger. Kato was smarter and cuter than the Green Hornet too - I didn't find out till I was grown up, that he'd been played by Bruce Lee; then it was, like, "well, no wonder!"