Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 19:51:46 -0500 From: tom reingold <tlr244nopsamnline.net> Subject: Re: Saab or GM?
Bob wrote: > On Thu, 02 Jan 2003 10:44:58 -0500, tom reingold > <tlr244nopsamnline.net> wrote: > > >>Nowadays, it seems politically correct >>to say Asian, but if I were Asian, I wouldn't be happy about that new >>class that lumps a huge diversity into one. My understanding is that >>many Asian Americans don't find it a clever or useful term, but neither >>is there a ton of people who are downright offended by it. > > > What bugs me is "African American" for anyone who's dark > skinned. Some of my "black" friends come from Caribbean Islands > and are not "African American". Now they all get lumped into one > pot because someone decided it was PC. > > Bob Well, if there is African ancestry, it's not entirely inaccurate. But for many in the Caribbean and in the Americas, that ancestry goes way, way back. Really, the problem is in trying to classify us on things that can't really be measured quantitatively. One very silly gaff I heard was when someone called Nelson Mandela an African American. Come on now! -- Tom Reingold Noo Joizy
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