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Thanatos <atropos@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> In article <xxxrayted-49EA97.15334318112007@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> ray <xxxrayted@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > In article <atropos-358005.15131917112007@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > Thanatos <atropos@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > In article <ocF%i.11119$yV6.8126@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > "Jim" <jim@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > > "Thanatos" <atropos@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > > news:atropos-B98220.14433816112007@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > > In article
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> > > > > z <gzuckier@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > > >> On Nov 16, 11:01 am, web...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Ubiquitous) wrote:
> > > > >> > SpaceTrader.com is the official Web site of the gift shop at
> > > > >> > NASA's
> > > > >> > Johnson Space Center in Houston. One of the toys you can buy
there
> > > > >> > is
> > > > >> > the "woman astronaut figure":
> > > > >>
> > > > >> ...
> > > > >>
> > > > >> > It needs to try harder. If the "black" doll is
> > > > >> > "African-American," what is the "white" doll? "American"!
> > > > >> > Seriously, that's what the drop-down menu on the Web site
> > > > >> > says.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Uh, no it doesn't. Don't go believing the WSJ editorial page.
> > > > >
> > > > > What does it say, then?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > The woman astronaut figure is available in caucasian and halfrican
> > > > http://spacetrader.com/woasfi.html
Either they changed it or
> > > > the OP is FOS.
> > >
> > > Actually, his point stands. The choices are Caucasian and
> > > African-American, the implication being that only one of them is an
> > > American since only one is labeled that way. Why isn't the white
doll a
> > > "Caucasian-American"?
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> > It would be that way if white Americans were only 18% of the
> > population.
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> What does percentage of the population have to do with it?
Because of the fact that if most of America were black, the standard
would be black dolls and figures; white dolls would be out of the
ordinary which means it would have to be pointed out.
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