Gregory L. Hansen wrote:
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 areThese 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.
My son-in-law, an "African-American" prefers to be called an "American." If there is a need to disguish him from "Arian-Americans" (as opposed to Italian or Polish Americans?) he prefers the term "black".
BTW - he just earned a Master's in Engineering from the Naval Post-Graduate School. Seems to me that the inventor of CP/M once taught there.
Roy
At least that's been the impression I've gotten from those that enforce grammar rules.
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