Talk:African Americans/Archive 2

message: I just edited some cut-and-paste garble out of the third paragraph and it struck me:  Just what term do those who criticize "African-American" as "political correctness" propose to replace it?  And what claim to the right to do so are they asserting?  Is it those who disdain "colored people" and favor "people of color"?  Or it those who . . . who what?  Are racists, perhaps.  
To me it is a matter of respect for the fact that African-Americans put up with a boatload of stupidity and worse every day of their lives.  As Colin Powell says, "When you're black, you're black all day."  So what possible objection can there be to respecting their wishes as to their preferred designation?  Ortolan88 06:19 Aug 1, 2002 (PDT)
:I'm not sure what's up with that, but it might be a resistance to any categorization. I've repeatedly heard complaints from various advocates that terminology denoting a certain group was demeaning in that it "labeled" them. These objections may stem from a desire to avoid unfavorable stereotyping. Anyway, as time goes by the usage of terms shifts, and it would be nice if the Wikipedia could chronicle these shifts. --Ed Poor
:: Precisely, Ortolan!  It's not like we're asking for a white stamp of approval about what to call ourselves -- or that we recognize others' (especially white folks') reaction to it is of any importance or merit.  It doesn't matter to us in the least.  So, what's all this crap?  A "boatload of stupidity," indeed! :-p deeceevoice 06:02, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Terminology, again

message: Removed  Since then it has become a definition accepted by the Western World.
This is clearly not the case in the UK. I find it very strange when US people say "I didn't know he was black", when seeing a picture of someone's grand-parents. -- Chris Q 09:36, 6 Nov 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: U.S. vs. UK usage

message: The latest edit made (by Karukera) was changing this:
or even a European nation
to this:
or even an European nation
Now, I don't know about you, but I don't go around saying "an Errr-uh-pe-an". Should not the /j/ sound take the word "a"? I don't say "an yam" or "an year" or "an Yugoslavian", do you? And we don't say "an unicorn" or "an uniform" or "an urinal" either, with what sound like they begin with Y. So, forget the "E" at the beginning for a moment . . . what about "(a|an) European" or "(a|an) eucalyptus"? Should we leave this spelling correction in, or revert it? Thoughts? Wiwaxia 02:13, 11 Nov 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: "a European" or "an European"?

message: I realize that wikipedia is unclear on this fact (see  British North America) and maybe the Americans never noticed, but Canada continued to be governed by the British North America Acts from 1967 until present, the last one being enacted by the Canadian Government in 1975.  After the American revolution the Canadian colonies were the remaining british presence in North America.  Somehow this article indicates, in error, that British North America became the United States.  That is a 33 million man, second largest land mass oversight.
Thanks.
Codylink (talk) 20:54, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  British North America is apparently Canada-free