Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 16:14:27 -0500 From: Bob <uctraingNOSPAMersnopsamanet.com> Subject: Re: Saab or GM?
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