Re: racist vs racialist?
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 11, 2002, 20:11 |
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On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 11:15:30 -0500 Amanda Babcock <langs@...>
writes:
> Basically, place-of-ancestral-origin is the *only* way to
> communicate racial
> distinctions. All other words just map back onto that. We do,
> however,
> need a way to distinguish place-of-ancestral-origin from
> place-of-personal-origin and culture-one-belongs-to.
> Amanda
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Isn't that what hyphenation is for?
African-American
Chinese-Indian
Pakistani-Argentinian
Inuit-Russian
etc.
-Stephen (Steg)
"alomshay!"