Re: sturdy old apple

[Rick <Rick@dot.dot>]

In article <86d61y7k6v.fsf@my.domain>, dgk@my.domain (Dowe G. Keller) 
wrote:

> glhansen@steel.ucs.indiana.edu (Gregory L. Hansen) writes:
> 
> > In article <XixNc.21114$K16.20888@newssvr23.news.prodigy.com>,
> > Sean Fahey <a2fan@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > >>    That all seems to boil down to "it's just wrong."
> > >
> > >Same vein as its socially inappropriate to refer to someone who is black, 
> > >as
> > >"nigger" or Hispanic as "spic". You're asking why terms like these are
> > 
> > These days, it's inappropriate to refer to someone who is black as black.  
> > People of color is old-fashioned, but I think still acceptable.  But the 
> > standard term is African American.  Even if you walk past a group of 
> > Nigerians on a college campus, talking to each other in their own 
> > language, they are African Americans.
> > 
> > At least that's been the impression I've gotten from those that enforce 
> > grammar rules.
> 
> What about a Dutch descended South African who immigrates to the US?

Afrikaner-American?

-- 
Rick...