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Re: sturdy old apple
- Subject: Re: sturdy old apple
- From: dgk@my.domain (Dowe G. Keller)
- Date: 10 Aug 2004 14:32:56 -0700
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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?
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