> > > And in reference to another part of your post, using the term "Yellow" has seemed to take on that encompassing negative connotation, so Asian is used instead. Where that starts and ends, I'm not sure. Also, Asian does not equal Oriental, so that term is frowned upon by my Asian friends.
> >
> > Apparently then, the children's song I grew up singing in Sunday school is no longer acceptable with the old words. We'll have to change it to something like this:
> >
> > Jesus loves the little children,
> > All the children of the world.
> > Native American and Asian-American,
> > African-American and Caucasian;
> > Jesus love the little children of the world.
> >
> > Gri"not gonna do that"shny
>
> All the children of the world, so long as they're American, by the sounds of it.
>
> wintermute

And there is another problem with those labels. They work fine, within the context of this country. However, if you are addressing someone who is an alien or you are outside of the states yourself you can't use those problematic tags anymore. I've heard of people getting really upset because someone called them "African-American", not because it had negative connotation but because the ignorant person who called them that failed to recognize the fact that they weren't American in the first place. Personally, I wish that the "*place of origin*-American" titles were still reserved for people who originate for another country and have aquired their United States citizenship. If you were born here then you really have no claim to another place any longer. Or at least I think more people should view it that way. When we get to that point, I think we'll be one step closer to racial harmony in this country.

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