Re: Country Related: Christmas

On Wed, 23 Dec 1998 17:28:06 -0600 Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> writes:
>Padraic Brown wrote:
>> Once I became aware of what the PC proponents were after in other
>areas
>> (postal carrier, instead of mailman; Indigenous American, instead of
>> Indian), Happy Holidays just seemed another cog in the works.
>I see nothing wrong with those terms.  So-called "Indians" have
>nothing
>to do with India, and "mailmen" can be men or women (altho mailperson
>seems a little better to me).  Terms like African-American, tho, I
>don't
>really like.  It's inaccurate - most "African-Americans" have never
>been
>to Africa, and white people live in Africa as well, an white immigrant
>from Africa would have to be called an African-American as well, yes?
A girl in my brother's class (who happens to be the VP of the SGO) likes
referring to herself as an African-American, and sometimes marks that
down as her ethnicity on forms that ask for one.

Her mother is from Tunis, Tunisia - North Africa. :)

A friend of mine's mother is from South Africa.  She also likes calling
herself an African-American.

Both of them are 'caucasian'. :)


-Stephen (Steg)

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