Talk:Muzungu
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when i visited eastern africa Muzungu, was as is said used to describe white person, but i was also lead to belive that it was "white person who walks around in circles" with the pretence that Africans belived that all white people looked that same, and that i was only a few white people walking around, rather than many different white people. At first i was unaware that some people were using it as a derogatory term, and i found most of the time that it was just a name that tourists were descirbed by.
Actually "mzungu" or "muzungu" means a "white" person, but not a "western" person. Chinese and Japanese people are "mzungu" too. It is only the skin color that matters, not the culture. This is what I learned in Kenya and Tanzania, but it is very hard to find an official source for this to make the changes to the article? What do you think?
