Reply to post: Re: sorry or not

IBM so very, very sorry after jobs page casually asks hopefuls: Are you white, black... or yellow?

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Anonymous Coward

Re: sorry or not

The clue is in that "Brazil_" prefix; ethnic descriptions used in the Brazilian census and elsewhere include amarelo (yellow) and mulatto (mulatto). The most likely explanation seems to be that someone's picked up an anglicised Brazilian list and used it out of context elsewhere in the world where some of those terms are considered offensive.

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