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Re: sturdy old apple



glhansen@steel.ucs.indiana.edu (Gregory L. Hansen) writes:

> That's how it was when I was in San Jose.  There were whites, blacks, 
> asians, and hispanics.  Nobody bothered to hyphenate each other, I suppose 
> because it takes too long to say.  My father's new wife prefers Indian 
> over Native American.  But some people get pretty hung up over that sort 
> of thing.

I prefer Indian myself, It's inaccurate, and can be confusing in the
company of actual Indians, but it is short.

For that matter, I'm pretty easygoing with half-breed, mongrel, or
mutt depending on the way its used.

I don't do new-speak ;-)

-- 
Dowe Keller				dgk@igalaxy.net

	  Please disregard the following crud.


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