Meanings
- AustraliaNew ZealandOne's blood quantum (percentage of person's ancestors who are full-blooded indigenous people) does not negate indigenous identity.
There’s a saying among blak mob, ‘It doesn’t matter how much milk you put in tea, it’s still tea'.’ I am a descendant of genocide survivors, a child of the oldest living culture on Earth. Nothing, no amount of milk, can change that.
2021 November 7, Claire [G.] Coleman, “Not quite blak enough: ‘The people who think I am too white to be Aboriginal are all white’”, in The GuardianSynonyms: no matter how much milk you put in tea, it's still tea
Synonyms & antonyms
proverbOne's blood quantum (percentage of person's ancestors who are full-blooded indigenous people) does not negate indigenous identity.
Cite this entry
no matter how much milk you put in coffee, it's still coffee. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/no%20matter%20how%20much%20milk%20you%20put%20in%20coffee%2C%20it's%20still%20coffee
“no matter how much milk you put in coffee, it's still coffee.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/no%20matter%20how%20much%20milk%20you%20put%20in%20coffee%2C%20it's%20still%20coffee. Accessed November 5, 2026.
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