fly girl
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Jan 20, 2012
Caucasian is just a very misused word - it classifies (incorrectly) by skin color, when it refers to a region between Europe and Asia. Its use dates back a few centuries, and it is just outdated now. I may have pale skin, but I am not Caucasian. Geneology shows no ancestor from that area for me, on record anyways.
Mothering and fathering are referring to stereotypes.
American - we just don't have a short word for "I am a citizen of the United States of America", so some dummy said he was American, forgetting that people from other countries are also on the American continents. It's not really offensive in my book, just stupid and narrowminded to assume all Americans are from the United States.
I know what they mean, personally I don't find them offensive. That was my point.
You can't say anything anymore without someone getting in a huff.
I'm over all the PC crap.