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What is the politically correct term for a woman whose ethnic background is Mexican or South American?
Latina
What is the politically correct term for a someone whose ancestors came from Japan, China, Korea, or Vietnam?
Asian
• A news commentator was recently criticized for this statement: “Muslims blew up the World Trade Center.”• Why is this politically incorrect?• What should he have said?
1. Follicle challenged a. pregnant
2. health alteration b. bald3. controlled flight into terrainc. drunk4. chemically inconvenienced d. dumb5. non-traditional shopping e. plane
crash6. cosmetically different f. murder7. parasitically oppressed g. ugly8. cerebrally challenged h. looting9. therapeutic segregation i. solitary
confinement
• Words alone cannot be good or bad. It is the way in which they are used that determines whether people feel they are good or bad. If one person's attitude towards another person is unkind, then new politically correct terms will also start to sound offensive. The important thing is to treat everyone with respect. This is what PC tries to do.