Re: sturdy old apple

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

In article <410727fb$1_5@corp.newsgroups.com>,  <exegete@nunya.biz> wrote:
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>Gregory L. Hansen wrote:
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>> In article <XixNc.21114$K16.20888@newssvr23.news.prodigy.com>,
>> Sean Fahey <a2fan@hotmail.com> wrote:
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>>>>   That all seems to boil down to "it's just wrong."
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>>>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
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>> 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.
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>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".

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 did actually see one article that refered to European-Americans.  It was 
the first time I'd ever seen anyone hyphenating everyone else, and also 
hyphenate white guys.


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>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.
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>Roy
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>> At least that's been the impression I've gotten from those that enforce 
>> grammar rules.
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