Re: sturdy old apple

[glhansen@steel.ucs.indiana.edu (Gregory L. Hansen)]

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.


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