As those who have had to suffer the nonsense of 'Equal Opportunities' training will know, 'harassment' is as seen by the recipient of the alleged insult....
A while ago, there was much angst about how 'other than white' folk in the US should be described. 'Negroid' was probably offensive, but was 'black' OK? Or 'red' for 'native Americans'? Not that 'red' and 'redneck' were the same thing. Or was 'Hispanic' more correct than 'Latino'. What about 'Americans of colo(u)r'?
Until someone said "Why don't you just say 'Americans'?"
I think it was the last UK census which revealed that a fair number of people had answered the 'ethnic origin' question.....as 'klingon'!
Last edited by BEagle; 24th Sep 2012 at 21:31.