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In message <019201c974a0$2e7c7eb0$8b757c10$@pickering>, Sandra Pickering <[log in to unmask]> writes > >Interesting how and when this has caught the public interest. > >FWIW - > >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. > >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? ;->> > >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 > > > >Sandra > > > > > >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 > > > >I'm obviously missing a link here. Should I be upset at being called a >Brit? > >2009/1/12 Mary Hawking <[log in to unmask]> > >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 -- Mary Hawking