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Originally Posted by martyh
don't be sorry 20 -30yrs ago we had to call black people coloured .It's not your fault that people are so sensitive about their skin colour they need to be categorised into colours .It's very confusing using the term black people because many people included in that term are not in fact black
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Yes i do find people are very sensitive, and yes i remember 20-30 years ago you did have to use the word coloured as black was considered a no no .
And in the US if you use the word black you are liable to be smashed around as they prefer the term "people of colour".
Its sometimes really hard due to senstivety issues to know what words do not cause offense in the UK in 2012 but i tried.