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Originally Posted by RizzyKing
This thread has demonstrated perfectly the main problem with race in the UK and the level of sensitivity much of it in my mind overly sensitive. As a white person (i hate labelling myself that way i am just another imperfect human being like 6 billion others) i never know what the correct terminology is from one year to the damn next. Once upon a time you couldn't or were ill advised to say black as you were somehow singling them out but now trying to be sensitve and using the generic term "coloured" gets you into trouble as well it really is pathetic.
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Well said. I myself recall being brought to book trying to be sensitive by using the term 'coloured' recently.
If it is that much of a problem to use that term, maybe a list should be published of what term we should use for what race / shade etc?
I mean, surely 'coloured' is a one size fits all?
/Can of worms.