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Date Posted: 13:54:01 09/17/07 Mon
Author: AssieKay
Subject: What's the PC term in other countries?
In reply to: Lynx 's message, "Is an ethnic slur an ethnic slur, even if it isn't?" on 14:27:50 09/16/07 Sun

Not one black person I knew in England referred to themselves as an African-Brit, or African-European. Is it common to refer to black Canadians as African-Canadians? Can anyone explain to me how that term got to be the moniker of choice in America? I'm just curious. I get a bit annoyed when people aren't just happy enough being American. Everybody in this country, with the exception of native American Indians have ancestry from somewhere else, yet no other group does this, at least that I am aware of.

My daughter is currently taking a class called Sociology of Minorities. The professor is Japanese and related a story how she was INCENSED to be mistakenly called Chinese, or referred to as Asian. She's actually from Japan and speaks with a velly heavy accent so it's unavoidable for people to think she's Asian, yet she had no response when asked how people here could possibly know she was Japanese as opposed to Korean or Chinese, etc... The class is clearly going in the direction that all white people are racist monsters and all minorities are heavily burdened. She went so far in her description of how horrible it must be to wake up each day and be black, that two young black students walked out of her class. Sadly, it's too late to drop the class, but the students are all hating it... the black, white, purple and polka-dotted ones. I don't understand why Oriental was deemed un-PC. Oriental = Asian, at least to me, neither word seems insensitive or rude. I don't get it.

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