When did 'negro' become a derogatory term for black people?
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I just use the word black. I think that coloured is in some way more offensive due to its awkwardness. Its feels like the person saying it is actively thinking that they must not be racist. I can't remember a time when someone has used coloured in a sentence without it being a bit off, not quite fluid.
It's the same reason Negro and ****** have gained notoriety though. It's misuse (calling anyone of asian appearance a ****) and the derogatory way in which it's used (usually by affixing a swear word to the front).
**** (pronounced more like parky) is used in NZ and other countries to describe people from Pakistan, and nobody takes offence. It's purely down to the way in which brits use it that it has taken on an offensive nature.
many people get this wrong.
You call people Black if they are such, not coloured. then theres hispanic, latino, asian, arabic etc....
coloured can be considered offensive, shouldn't really, but i can see the angle that could be taken as it is ofcourse atleast...wrong (as in incorrect).
its not hard?
How Chinese aren't though? Indian not Chinese or like Japanese/Korean not Chinese?
The thing i don't understand is why Brits have been known to refer to the corner shop as the **** shop. Obviously the reference is to people from Pakistan but I don't think I've been into such a shop that wasn't actually run buy Indians or more likely these days, English Indians. Calling an Indian a **** is tantamount to calling an Englishman a Frog isn't it?
I think I'm one of the few who wishes the Chinese family in the local chippy happy new year when it's Chinese new year.
At work we recently took on a guy who is English but quite obviously has family ties in India. I spent a lot of the quiet time at work asking about his families culture because i'm honestly interested. He calls himself a coconut though.
coloured is offensive because it's essentially "non-white", it's a real segregation jobby
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Someone with authority from their ethnicity should come up and state what they would like to be called!
But then they have no such uniting character and, furthermore, most probably have no idea what they wish to be called, especially when it then kills off their chance to complain upon what people call them. Same thing on the issue of slavery, they would widely blame the currently developed world for it but the only proposed remedy I hear of is "lots and lots of money" without any elaboration about roughly how much, from whom exactly, to whom or what is it needed for?
But then they have no such uniting character and, furthermore, most probably have no idea what they wish to be called, especially when it then kills off their chance to complain upon what people call them. Same thing on the issue of slavery, they would widely blame the currently developed world for it but the only proposed remedy I hear of is "lots and lots of money" without any elaboration about roughly how much, from whom exactly, to whom or what is it needed for?
years ago my friends were visiting other friends in birmingham and thook their 3 year old daughter to cadbury world..they had a bloke handing out free chocolates to the kids and he was black.
a few days later she was on the metro back home a black bloke got on and here daughter pipes up 'theres the chocolate man'
she felt like curling up in shame
At a place I used to work, some homeless guy wandered in, went into the cellar and stole a plastic bag full of beer bottles. He drew supsician only because a fellow worker heard a 'chink' sound as the guy walked out with his bag full of bottles.
The police arrived and there was a 5 minute discussion during the taking of the statement as to whether the word 'chink' should be used in the statement as it might be considered racist (despite there being no oriental people present)
They decided to use the word 'clanking' instead.
The police arrived and there was a 5 minute discussion during the taking of the statement as to whether the word 'chink' should be used in the statement as it might be considered racist (despite there being no oriental people present)
They decided to use the word 'clanking' instead.
Coloured is offensive, and my wife doesnt like being labled African American, because like she says, shes not from Africa. She's more Native American and Irish than African.
I've never had an issue saying Black around my wifes family, but it depends on where in the states they are from, Some take issue with African American, some don't.
She used to go Ballistic when they used to put Afro Caribbean on the forms in the UK because they didnt have "Black other".
My daughters medical records had White/Afro Caribbean as the race.
I've never had an issue saying Black around my wifes family, but it depends on where in the states they are from, Some take issue with African American, some don't.
She used to go Ballistic when they used to put Afro Caribbean on the forms in the UK because they didnt have "Black other".
My daughters medical records had White/Afro Caribbean as the race.
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Using coloured to describe a black man is just wrong, is he pink or green? If he is black then he is black, on the same token if hes brown, he is brown. Im white in winter brown in summer. Why should people have to tred round the subject? Just call it as it is.
'The painted man' quote was because he was tattooed not because of his colour.
The problem isn't with what people actually find offensive themselves most of the time, it's with what other people think they will find offensive. Political Correctness is the bane of the modern communication.
Coloured is offensive, and my wife doesnt like being labled African American, because like she says, shes not from Africa. She's more Native American and Irish than African.
I've never had an issue saying Black around my wifes family, but it depends on where in the states they are from, Some take issue with African American, some don't.
She used to go Ballistic when they used to put Afro Caribbean on the forms in the UK because they didnt have "Black other".
My daughters medical records had White/Afro Caribbean as the race.
Is she black or is she a native american indian? My ethnicity is european/native american, and that is because my mother is a Red Indian basically. Native American is a specific term used for american indians and not black people whose ancestors came from africa.
my wifes mother is half native american. As daft as it sounds my wifes grandmother used to live in a teepee in the garden, she didnt like living in a house. On her fathers side theres irish and english mixed in too.
what about "the black guy", same as you'd say "the ginger bloke" or " the girl with massive boobs"
