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Loads of them arent actually black though, Chris Hughton is hardly black, but my point is that you mentioned that non-white people dont like being lumped into one big group, well whats "black" then? Thats one big group that lumps everyone from Lewis Hamilton to Bruno Martins Indi into the one size fits all "black" category, if they dont like one group why are they happy all being called black, its bollocks
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Neil Martin
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What
what about when they are referred to, as in S.Africa and the US as "The Blacks", do they like that?
what about when they are referred to, as in S.Africa and the US as "The Blacks", do they like that?
Good, cos you know it's true don't you?
I know you can say black ffs, my point is that seb says non whites dont like being lumped into one group whilst saying theyre happy all being caled black, which doesnt make sense. If his point was true then you couldnt say black, as his point is wrong, you can
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Sebasaurus II
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They're all of Afro-Caribbean descent.
Your "coloured" term would have Africans, Arabs, Punjabs, Turks etc, etc all in the same category.
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Neil Martin
Guest
Fair enough
Well Seb is good at being wrong on this thread...
Aye, fair enough, i'll give you that one, still think people get offended over nowt sometimes mind
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Sebasaurus II
Guest
Right, next, Asian, is it really right that we just use "Asian" when sometimes we mean the good folk of Pakistan and surrounding countries and when sometimes we mean, for example, Japanese people despite the fact they dont look alike in the slightest and are 3,000 miles away from each other? Are we meant to use "oriental appearance" to refer to the latter or is that wrong. Just thought id start another daft debate
Howard the Duck
Striker
Is this issue with the word 'coloured' not the implication that white is the default colour and anything else is a deviation?
I'd never heard the 'being lumped in together' issue before.
Black Cat Gypsy
Striker
You're getting your knickers in a twist.
It's about language changing. I've never met anyone who used coloured as a racist slur.
It reminds me of a scene from Roots. The father was using the term Negro. He was told the you can't use that word. "Well I've been trying to get people to call me that all my live!"
Just correct their grammar mistake instead of calling them The Grand Master of KKK.
1) What grammar mistake are you referring to?
2) If you notice I started on this thread by saying it was a storm in a teacup and no doubt no offence was intended. I only pointed out that "coloured" has always been a dodgy word. Dodgy. Not openly racist, and I never said anywhere that it was used as or intended as a slur. I said it was dodgy.
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Sebasaurus II
Guest
I assumed it was both like. I'd like to know...
GBSAFC
Striker
its racial-ageddon
Italian Outcast
Midfield
I had my HR person analyse this issue recently, so that the office was fully compliant with current appropriate language and phraseology
It was important to develop and define a term that would be stable across a 10 year horizon.
Although some may complain...after all there is always one, the preferred term is "people of another hue"
It was important to develop and define a term that would be stable across a 10 year horizon.
Although some may complain...after all there is always one, the preferred term is "people of another hue"
lord of light
Winger
its not just that is it nobody wants to be called a racist or say the wrong thing that sort of over the top reaction is breeding fear of saying the wrong thing
Flavonoids
Striker
That's wrong.
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