On Wednesday, June 22, 2005, at 19:42, Jay JG <jayjg(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
Until 40 years ago or so the word "Colored"
for "African-American"
was used near-universally in the United States, and was seen
as "neutral" as well.
Actually, using "African-American" instead of "black" is widely
ridiculed in
the UK, FWIW. But yes, I agree, language changes - the point is, the use of
CE/BCE notation is a POV term like all the others whose time of being
considered better than any others has not yet come, and may indeed never do
so.
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