So I wonder if I can call myself a 'Black English' person from now on.

[bhavv]

If we completely ignore ancestry, then technically I was born and lived my whole life in England, making me English, and my skin is brown but for simplicity anyone with skin colour and who is non Caucasian is black right?

I am Black English! Yay.

 

[warpus]

You can call yourself whatever you want, really. I'm Purple Penguin.

It might not be true, but you can do it.

 

[Thedrin]

There are many people with non-Caucasian parents who self-identify as English.

 

[Zkribbler]

I ain't English, but I can speak it good.

 

[Arakhor]

After long periods without proper sunlight, my skin turns as white as milk. Does that mean I'm Milk British?

 

[classical_hero]

You're more wookie than black.

 

[CELTICEMPIRE]

I'm an American who was born in America, therefore I am a Native American.

 

[BornInCantaloup]

If we completely ignore ancestry, then technically I was born and lived my whole life in England, making me English, and my skin is brown but for simplicity anyone with skin colour and who is non Caucasian is black right?

Caucasian, does the term see a lot of use where you live in ?
Considering how the meaning behind it is essentially arbitrary and racist (...), I would hope not.

I thought its use was exclusive to the USA, where it's even administrative. Maybe it's popular in some regions of Eastern Europe, too.

I take it as a hint, how posters here refrain from repeating that : Caucasian.

 

[BvBPL]

If Black English doesn't work out for you then I hear the requirements to be Black Irish are significantly less burdensome.

 

[bhavv]

Lol at Caucasian being a racist term. No. Just no.

 

[Lohrenswald]

WELL

To me at least, and I'm sure to many, "black" signifies someone of african origin, but you're ancestry is from India or Pakistan, right?

 

[bhavv]

Actually the term 'Afro' refers to someone of African origin.

Black people can also come from the tropics. Jamaican / West Indies people are black are they not?

 

[Lohrenswald]

Yes, but they have african ancestry.

The natives in America (both continents, the carribean and so on), are not of african origin, and are not refered to as black

And also, spesifically sub-saharan african ancestry. Maghrebi people I wouldn't call black

 

[bhavv]

So how is this person not black?

 

[Arakhor]

I thought its use was exclusive to the USA, where it's even administrative. Maybe it's popular in some regions of Eastern Europe, too.

Why on earth would it be exclusive to the US? You do know where the Caucasus Mountains are, don't you? (I mean, I say I'm white, obviously, but that doesn't mean I'm not of Caucasian ethnicity.)

So how is this person not black?

I think that when most Britons say "black", they mean someone of African or Caribbean extraction.

 

[Domen]

So how is this person not black?

That red point on her forehead alone already makes her un-Black.

Plus Western Eurasian facial features and non-Afro-textured hair:

Global hair texture map

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-textured_hair

Albino Indian:

Spoiler :

 

[bhavv]

Erm, but she clearly has black skin.

 

[Domen]

She has black hair and I can distinguish her black hair from her brown skin.

Unlike in case of - for example - the skin of Dinka people of South Sudan:

 

[bhavv]

Yet most African people aren't even that dark.

 

[Domen]

Yes, I know.

But India is not in Africa anyway. It used to be one landmass with Madagascar, though.