Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

^ Interesting idea, but don´t expect people to adopt it any time soon; a simpler approach might be as Captain Beefheart said:-
"All people are colored, otherwise we´d see right through them."

On a related issue, I´d like to check up about the skin colour of Latin Americans. The description that I learned as a schoolboy was "olive-skinned." Is that term still in use, I wonder ? Here in Mexico, people describe themselves as "moreno" - that translates as "brown" in my dictionary but doesn´t sound appropriate to me. Van Morrison could sing about a Brown-Eyed Girl with no problem, but Brown-Skinned Girl sounds slightly offensive, and misleading if applied to a Latin American.