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Wednesday, August 27, 2003
"Political Correctness - Being polite, or just plain dumb?"
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Well, i think it all depends on who you are reffering to and where does it stand. I mean, whether it's important or not if the name has been changed. Whereas some people don't mind some words being changed.
One example that i don't understand untill now is that why the blacks are called african american or black americans? Does the skin color matters? I mean, if you are a american, then american it is. There's no need to differentiate between one another. This may just makes people feel bad. It's like you've offended them by saying that you are black! Isn't that rude.
Well, i think some political correctness are just redundant. I f the other concerned party is aggreeable to the terms that already existed, then there is no need to change the terms. For example, the 'deafs'. They wanted to be called deaf rather than hearing-impaired. It may be too you a more polite way of
addressing a deaf but are proud to be known as deafs. It's an insult, if you ask me.
What i can conclude is that the world of languages will still be the same with or without these political correctness terms.
Political correct terms
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Well, i think there is no use in changing the form of the words as they are still refering to the same stuff. Let say 'air hostess', there's nothing wrong with it it, isn't it? I wonder why they decided to change it to 'air stewardess'. But then again, maybe they did not want to offend the male who are working as stewards.
I think terms are replaced as they do not want to offend people. Especially for special cases as in the way you describe someone who is less fortunate. 'Deaf' but for now they're called 'hearing-impaired'. But then again, my teacher, who works as an intrperter of the deaf community told me that the deaf are proud to be deaf and not liked to be called 'hearing-impaired'.
The last thung i wanted to say is that, it's not how much times you may change the terms of the words but it's the feelings of the people whom you are addressing is more important.
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