<p>Yeah, um I go to a very diverse school too and the only racist people are the black people and not the white people, yet the some black guy made a group on facebook thats called "whyd u call me nigga you nazi" and it's compaining about white people saying the nword. The only problem is: we don't.</p>
<p>We're all just different shades of brown.</p>
<p>I'm not uber-PC and not easily offended by word choice, but it confuses me when people whine about political correctness. To me, being politically correct is just a way to make sure you're being polite and not inadvertently offending anyone- what's wrong with that?</p>
<p>i agree with salamander.</p>
<p>i don't really think about race much. if i need to describe someone, i definitely say black or asian, like i would say white or brunette.</p>
<p>and i love off-colour jokes. but i don't care if they're about jews or irishmen (i'm irish) or blacks or aussies or chuck norris.. i just think they're funny, and so do most of my black/jew/etc friends.</p>
<p>^^^White people from south africa are not African American. Just like if a white family had a kid while in japan the kid wouldn't be Japanese.</p>
<p>They are British (or wherever they came from) living in Africa. Just like when we are asked our race here we aren't just "American".</p>
<p>I think if your parents maintain permanant residence somewhere and your born there and are a citizen, you are from that country.</p>
<p>haha clubs aren't supposed to exclude ANYONE! and ooh, good point, the African-American one</p>
<p>calling a black person a 'negro' would be not be so smart...</p>
<p>There's this kid at my school who's half Irish and half Egyptian. He's basically white, looks slightly Arabic, but puts down that he's "African-American" on his papers. He's outrageous. Born here, by the way.</p>
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I'm kind of curious now, how a white south-african is going to fill out a job application/survey/anything? Is s/he gonna mark down African-American or white? They're gonna be surprised if they find out she's white, but then again, she really is african-american. That's why people need to start using black or something else.
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<p>No. That's WHY it shouldn't matter if you're black, white, yellow, or purple when you take up a job.</p>
<p>The confusion is because the US likes to be stupid when it comes to racial categories. </p>
<p>African American has a very warped definition here in the US, just like Hispanic. An African American can be of any race (just be a White kid with German parents born in Nigeria and then move to the US and get citizenship - African American), however by US definition to be African American you have to be black skinned. Some people from Spain and Portugal or with heritage there come here to the US and decide to call themself Hispanic, which they may be so, but not by the US's definition. They are White. </p>
<p>Or Asian. Asian has several different races. I refuse to believe that the dark skinned Indians are the same race as the light skinned Chinese or the many brown south east Asians. </p>
<p>IMO, I think Brazil has it right: </p>
<p>The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) classifies the Brazilian population in five categories: white, black, pardo (brown), yellow or Indigenous, based on skin color.</p>
<p>White (49.9% of the population):[2] usually a Brazilian of full or predominant European ancestry or other White ancestry (such as Arab Brazilian, Jewish) who considers himself or herself to be White.
Pardo or Brown (43.2%):[2] usually a Multiracial Brazilian of brown skin color and mixed-race features who considers himself or herself to be "Pardo".
Black (6.3%):[2] usually a dark-skinned Brazilian of Black African ancestry who considers himself or herself to be Black.
Yellow: (0.5%) usually a Brazilian of East Asian descent, mostly Japanese.
Indigenous (0.4%):[3] usually a Brazilian of full or predominant Amerindian ancestry who considers himself or herself to be Amerindian.</p>
<p>I think when people are too politically correct, it shows that they're considering race, which is not good. So I just try to go with the flow, even if sometimes (unintentionally) I end up saying something politically incorrect (although being a minority, I would NEVER use racial slurs).</p>
<p>I'm not too politically correct. I think it's gotten out of hand, since now everyone tries to be too politically correct (the holidays are funny when this happens). I don't use racial slurs, and I think some things go across the line of being "too politically incorrect", though it's not so much a question of politics as just common sense. I hate it when people say something is "gay" when they mean stupid. I don't do that. It's a bad way to express something and insulting to people.</p>
<p>I don't care about being politically correct, I'll be politically correct if I truly believe that being politically correct is the upright and moral thing to do. I'll call Black people Blacks if I want to, you have to be dinged in the head to get fussed up over that.</p>
<p>Personally, I don't like the terms Indian or Native American when referring to the pre-Columbian dwellers of the Americas. They aren't from India, and anyone who is born here is technically a native... I could deal with Indigenous Americans, or Pre-Columbian Americans, because technically they're just early adopters of the continent.</p>
<p>Random factoid: Eastern Indigenous Americans are probably actually descended from the Celtic people, not the Russo-Asians like the Western and Northern ones.</p>
<p>PC definitely gets out of hand where I live. A middle school I go to referred to dice as "six-sided number cubes" or "six sided number generators" because they said dice implied gambling.</p>
<p>I don't like PC, but I still make sure I don't say anything that would be horrendously offensive.</p>
<p>Conversational, I'm not that politically correct...Over the computer...much more so...
Negro is a respectable term, but it so close to the other word that if you were to call any African Americans that they would go.
"whachu say 'bout meh?!?!?"
lol...I know all of them don't talk like that, my school is like 40% black...</p>
<p>My school is pretty PC. They didn't play any music in the cafeteria at lunch during Ramadan so as to offend the Muslim students (I'm Muslim. I didn't even know the rule existed.)</p>
<p>The GSA. I'm not homophobic or anything, but it's RIDICULOUS to have "heterosexually biased" events cancelled.</p>
<p>edit: I also think it's ridiculous that I felt the need to qualify that I'm not homophobic.</p>
<p>What exactly is a heterosexually biased event?</p>
<p>"Heterosexually-biased" events? I think we all deserve a little clarification, because that's just absurd.</p>