In message <019201c974a0$2e7c7eb0$8b757c10$@pickering>, Sandra Pickering
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>Interesting how and when this has caught the public interest.
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>FWIW -
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>1. In what circumstances is it necessary or helpful to identify
>someone?s racial or national attributes?
From the clip I heard, it was to draw attention an individual in a group
just before naming him - which I would have thought was useful in a
video diary.
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>2. As we all know, nationality and race are very different things of
>course.
Am I allowed to be insulted by being called a Brit or a Pom? ;->>
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>3. What do you mean by ?politically correct?? I genuinely do not
>know what it means. (I do know what the hard-of-thinking suggest it
>means.)
Actually what I was looking for were terms that were acceptable to the
groups involved - and could be used without offending the Daily Mail by
the rest of us!
I was in the USA for 5 years, and the acceptable term for US citizens
with some African descent kept changing.
Is African-American now acceptable?
Mary
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>Sandra
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>From: GP-UK [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of John
>Clegg
>Sent: 12 January 2009 10:11
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Politically correct identification of ethnic minorities - and
>others
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>I'm obviously missing a link here. Should I be upset at being called a
>Brit?
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>2009/1/12 Mary Hawking <[log in to unmask]>
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>I heard the clip causing offence on Radio 4, and it did seem to me that
>Prince Harry was identifying an individual in a group before naming
>him .
>The term he used may be considered inappropriate - but is there any
>politically correct, up to date way to identify different racial and
>national individuals in England, the UK and the USA?
>Mary
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Mary Hawking
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