[Tania S.]

The answer is simple. Your perspiration – and every other bodily excretion, actually – contains tiny molecules of the food you eat every day. Many herbs, spices and other food ingredients remain in the body for extended periods, and will accumulate if consumed in large amounts. Someone who eats a lot of masala, for example, which is a very strong-smelling Indian spice, will soon end up smelling like the stuff. This phenomenon is not exclusive to Indian food. There is a reason they make odorless garlic pills. It isn’t for the flavor, but so the person who takes one pill a day as suggested doesn’t end up smelling like a garlic bulb!

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Name : Tania S., Gender : F, Race : Black/African American, Age : 26, City : Montreal, State : NA, Country : Canada, Occupation : Self-Employed, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Upper class, 

[Tania S.]

‘What exactly is an ‘African American’? An African American is a black American of African ancestry. The Oxford English Dictionary contains evidence of the use of black with reference to African peoples as early as 1400, and the word has been in wide use in racial and ethnic contexts ever since. However, it was not until the late 1960s that black (or Black) gained its present status as a self-chosen ethnonym with strong connotations of racial pride, replacing the then-current Negro among blacks and non-blacks alike with remarkable speed. Equally significant is the degree to which Negro became discredited in the process, reflecting the profound changes taking place in the black community during the tumultuous years of the civil rights and Black Power movements. The recent success of ‘African American’ offers an interesting contrast in this regard. Though by no means a modern coinage, African American achieved sudden prominence at the end of the 1980s when several black leaders, including Jesse Jackson, championed it as an alternative ethnonym for Americans of African descent. The appeal of this term is obvious, alluding as it does not to skin color but to an ethnicity constructed of geography, history and culture, and it won rapid acceptance in the media alongside similar forms such as Asian American, Hispanic American and Italian American.

Why does it matter? Most everyone cosiders nationality, heritage, culture, geography and history to be a part of their individual identities. Referring to ourselves as simply ‘American’ would severely belie these factors. Likewise, the title ‘black’ says only that: The bearer is ‘black,’ which is not even a fact for a very large portion of African Americans. In contrast, ‘mulatto’ is neither a race, nationality, geographic region, or history of any group of people, but rather a combination of African-American and another race – usually assumed to be Caucasian. You may also note that ‘mulatto’ is considered by many of mixed race to be a derogatory term, originating from the latin word for MULE, being the offspring of a horse (presumably the white parent) and a donkey (…). The term is becoming less and less acceptable in ‘politically correct’ society. Hope this answers your question.

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