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Originally Posted by IceDragon
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Er ... spokeswoman? Shouldn't that be 'spokesperson'?
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Only if it's a man, if it's a woman they can be given a label according to their gender.
Apparently Asian is now a word which is forbidden by the police, words such as Bangladeshi or Pakistani are now used. School football matches are reset at half time if one side is losing badly, the term "black eye" is no longer encouraged, fail is a term no longer encouraged, it is now "deferred success". |
That makes perfect sense. Hindus and Sikhs have been complaing for a long time about news reports which involve the word 'Asian'. It should be specific.
Also, 'Asian' can refer to Chinese, Japanese, Thais, Koreans, etc and political correctness has allowed it to mean 'people from the Indian sub-continent alone.
Christina