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- From: jdnicoll@prism.ccs.uwo.ca (James Davis Nicoll)
- Subject: Re: Term for blacks has changed
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 21:00:41 GMT
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- In article <1had2iINNfdn@spim.mti.sgi.com> mpolen@suntory.mti.sgi.com (Mike Polen) writes:
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- >I give up. Where are these blacks from that do not have
- >African heritage? It was my understanding that even the
- >Australian Aborigenees (spelling?) migrated from the
- >African continent. Better than the Carribean and American
- >Blacks who migrated involuntarily in the holds of slave ships.
-
- Hmmm. Australia was occupied by humans at least 40,000
- years ago. The route would have from Asia, to the north (I'm
- told there are 'Australiod' ethnic groups in India). Any
- reason to think the most recent African ancestor of the
- Aborigines departed Africa more recently than the ancestors
- of other groups now considered non-African?
-
- James Nicoll
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