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ToleranceTolerancePosted Aug 17, 2012 21:21 UTC (Fri) by Baylink (subscriber, #755)In reply to: Tolerance by Lennie Parent article: Aurora: DEFCON: Why conference harassment matters
I believe "coloured", along with "Negro" and--amazingly--"Black" are now considered unacceptable descriptive terms for what we're not supposed to call "African-Americans", even if they are neither African, nor American.
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Tolerance Posted Aug 18, 2012 13:23 UTC (Sat) by Lennie (subscriber, #49641) [Link]
I'm not from the US, my first language isn't even English. So I have a question for you:
What is the term for people who are not white/Caucasian ?
Non-Caucasian ?
Tolerance Posted Aug 18, 2012 14:05 UTC (Sat) by andresfreund (subscriber, #69562) [Link]
I am not a native speaker as well, but here - in Germany - when speaking english the term People/Person of color is used at times. I think I remember this being used in the US as well.
Tolerance Posted Aug 18, 2012 18:40 UTC (Sat) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]
In the UK "black" is in common use and does not appear to be offensive.
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