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European here. We call them by their names! Steve, Maria, etc. We don't have the need or society expectation to define someone based on their race or where their ancestors came frim. That's a thing in the US, but not here. I don't have in my passport or government ID a field that says "Caucasian" and I don't see a beed for that.

at a certain point in my life i lived in Ukraine, usually they’d just say somebody was black or asian, or what country the person’s family was from. i haven’t really heard anybody saying things like chinese ukrainian, or africian ukrainian.

German here. We call them Germans if they have the German nationality and by their own nationality if they're not. Otherwise we call them POC, black Germans or black people if referred to them as a group. But there are idiots here too who try to start that segregation nonsense too. But for most germans it doesn't matter where a people with a different skin colour might have their roots. They're just Germans now. It always bristled when people tried to exclude people from being real, normal Germans just because at one point their ancestors might have immigrated. But my guess is that's because we're very aware of our history and what labels like that could lead to. We don't want to repeat the mistakes of out ancestors

In the UK, if we need to refer to someone's race or skin colour, we tend to say black, brown, white, Asian. "African American" is a very odd concept to us. What if their family originates from the Caribbean, not Africa? Also, you can be African and white, for example, so it is both weirdly specific and potentially inaccurate

We call them black if we have to, but I only ever came across ethnicity question when registering with doctor/dentist (UK). For reference this is “options” list from UK census: Asian or Asian British, Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Chinese, Any other Asian background; Black, Black British, Caribbean or African; Caribbean, African; Any other Black, Black British, or Caribbean background; Mixed or multiple ethnic groups, White and Black Caribbean, White and Black African, White and Asian, Any other Mixed or multiple ethnic background, White English, Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish or British; Irish, Gypsy or Irish Traveller, Roma, Any other White background, Other ethnic group, Arab, Any other ethnic group Edit: formatting does not work on my phone but you still get the idea https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/style-guide/ethnic-groups

My experience abroad is that people are referred to in much broader, generalized terms, White, Black, Asian, etc. than in America where it seems to be far more important where you're from than who you are.

We usually refer to them like we would refer to ”white” people… Or tell which country their grandparents were from. Like ”Steve is great, his mom comes from India, so he knows how to cook some really spicy food!”

In Australia if needed we refer to the person by their nationality if they were born there and/or still use that nationality as part of their identity. Otherwise they’re just Australian. I’m an immigrant and am just Australian to everyone.

In Aotearoa New Zealand our indigenous people are Maori. Most go by "Bro, Cuz, Cuzzie, Auntie, Uncle". Regardless of colour or where you come from, all of these names are a mark of respect and acceptance.

In Canada we have Canadians and newcomers. If it's pertinent to describe someone's racial background, Black, White (or Caucasian), Indigenous (or Aboriginal or First Nations), Asian, Latinx,,etc. (Edit: newcomers are specifically immigrants themselves, not Generations born here)

Take a page out of Einstein's play book. When he filled in the immigration papers arriving in USA, under race y wrote Human Race. At least that's the legend.

Hi Foxgirl, as a white European girl who really likes foxes I can tell you the following: here in the Netherlands we often refer to the country of origin even though someone is born and raised here. So we have marrocans, Surinaams, Turkish etc. In the countryside people sometimes even use the n-word (which is frowned upon by others). We do not use s Dutch-Surinaams or such but I think it would be a great idea and more inclusive. It is a sensitive topic and avoided often. It's great that you are asking and are already are sensitive to cultural differences 😘 My friends from a different background feel really Dutch but unfortunately society does not always treat them this way because of the color of their skin.

People are called usually "citizen" if they are from that country, and "bloody foreigners" otherwise

I'm a white guy from England, now in California, and my best friend in university was a black Kenyan. I don't remember being asked but if I was I would have said he was Kenyan. It's so sad that there's such prejudice here in the U.S. from white people who invaded the country then captured black people in their home country and shipped them over here to enslave them. I don't refer to my white friends as white, I use their names.

Not all Americans go by what you said. My black relatives refer to themselves as black. And the white ones as white and the Filipinos as Filipino. I don't have any Chinese relatives. And that is when it comes up because most of the time we just use each others names.

Feel free to ignore the idiots virtue signalling their responses. We go with the country of origin if we know it, or if not or if they're residents then we go with black or Asian. If they've got an accent you will usually refer to them by city or county instead of anything else.

From my experience in my country we do less labelling, more seeing people as individual. But we do acknowledge and respect identity and heritage and that's quite important to indigenous cultural practices, but it is a very inclusive, coming together sort of thing. But as far as labels, that's more up to the person and we would follow their lead with how important that is to their identity.

We're moving away from that, though. Because it's stupid. We're Americans. All our ancestors came from someplace else. All of them. Every. Single. One. It's a big country, and an even bigger continent -- twice. I mean, think about it. "Mexican American"? Well, yeah, Mexico is indeed a country in North America.

Not every country uses the same framework as Americans to describe themselves or other. So, one a New Zealander (or Kiwi) whatever one's skin colour.

Black. Asian. Delete as appropriate.

If someone is black, they are called black. If someone is Chinese, they’re called Chinese and etc. although if they have that country’s citizenship then they’re just called from that country. But racial labels would be more like, black, east/central/south Asian, Middle Eastern, etc

People. Skin colour isn't such an issue in many other parts of the world like it is in the U.S.

Mostly we just say Irish or British or whatever. Rhasidat Adeleke from Dublin recently set a new Irish 400m record.

In the UK we call them British, or whatever nationality they actually are. If it's necessary to give their race (ie you're describing them because they've gone missing), we'd use black, Asian (meaning Indian sub continent) or their country of origin/family's country of origin if we know it. We don't really have common terms for what people from the Americas call Latinos or far eastern people. UK is mostly white (much higher percentage than the US), then black and Asian so those are the group we have racial terms for.

European here, ppl from Africa are called africans if their skin is dark, if it's lighter moroccans, muslims or ppl who doesn't eat meat. Saying that there is no racism in Europe is an utopia, there's more and more cause of all the illegal migrants coming every year making life unsafe. It's not nice to say but it's happening.

Indian here... we have people whose families might have migrated to India centuries ago... Never heard such terms actually... maybe they say their ancestors came from Afghanistan or China etc. But they are just Indians.. Not Indian Afghan or something

This is a good question and not easy to be answered. Every country has its own habits and in some it is more important to use this in daily life than in others. It might (but I am not sure) depend on the extend and "succes" of colonization, and if regions far away (once) belong(ed) to a country or not and the local culture at the moment of colonization by Europeans. Plus today's immigration due wars and poor economies elsewhere. In Germany it is not asked for in official documents, in daily life it depends on in how far the one person does not care about the other's ancestry and the other person has adapted to the local culture.

I eould say Black Brittish or Asian Brittish if need to.The ethnic groups in the UK for official data purposes are: 1. Asian or Asian British Indian Pakistani Bangladeshi Chinese Any other Asian background 2. Black, Black British, Caribbean or African Caribbean African Any other Black, Black British, or Caribbean background 3. Mixed or multiple ethnic groups White and Black Caribbean White and Black African White and Asian Any other Mixed or multiple ethnic background 4. White English, Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish or British Irish Gypsy or Irish Traveller Roma Any other White background 5. Other ethnic group Arab Any other ethnic group In Wales, ‘Welsh’ is the first option in the White category.

In Canada we say black people, south-Asian, Latino, etc.

The whole African-American thing is dumb if you want to get right down to it. Assuming currently accepted science is correct all humanity originated in African and migrated around the world slowly gaining regional appearances. So effectively everyone in the US is African - American regardless of appearance or where they were born.

you just say black or "of African descent" I think

In South Africa we say black, coloured, indian, asian (or maybe Chinese/Japanese/Korean but tbh most non-asian people don't know the difference). Some people say African instead of black, but a lot of people really don't like that because e.g. I'm white but I also consider myself an African, my family have been South Africans for hundreds of years. Honestly I wish we'd just stop dividing people by race altogether, like they do in Europe. But sadly we still have some way to go before we get there.

What do you call someone of Carribean descent?! They are not African-American, they’re just black, here in the UK anyway and that is just it?!

In Germany all people are just plain German (if they have German citicenship). If you describe people, you can say „xyz is black/ white/ asian looking…“ Edit: I am NOT saying we don‘t have racism (edited because I forgot the „not“)

The only time I see the white British or black British etc term come up is when filling in a form for the doctors or hospital etc. It's usually asked as what your enithicity is or how you would describe yourself for example I am white British then there are other answers mixed asian British, black Irish etc. But it's not used like the term african American statement is. If you were reporting a crime you would say a white female, asian female, black female etc.

By race, ethnicity, etc. or substituting the "American" for whichever country. In the US, afaik "African American" and "Chinese American" refer to specific groups so it would be incorrect to use those terms to refer to black or Chinese tourists, for example.

In England we describe people of colour as 'English'.

In Australia usually we don't refer to race but when we do, say we are describing someone's appearance, we would usually say their country of origin I think? e.g. indian, asian, African etc

As an American, I didn’t even know people still said that. I don’t know if it’s regional or what, but here (Chicago) almost everybody says Black, brown, Asian, White, Native. The only people I know who use “African American” etc are pretty old or from an area without much ethnic diversity.