AthenaSurrenders
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ORIGINAL: MissBlueangel People in England still refer to mixed race as half caste. Not correct but they do. And since they usually referring to my children it boils my pee-pee My grandparents do this. And say 'coloured'. I know that they are just using the words that, for most of their lives, everyone used and they don't mean it to be offensive. In fact, they are both sweethearts and have a lot of friends who are from Uganda and Zimbabwe, they'd be very upset to think that they were hurting people's feelings. I've gently mentioned that we don't use those words anymore, but it's like they genuinely don't understand that times have changed. Not race, but it always makes me cringe when someone in my husband's family says 'retarded' or 'handicapped' which to my ears are awful, mean words. But it seems to be a cultural difference between England and Wyoming. LilSquaw - thank you for clarifying. I definitely have memories of playing games as children where we called ourselves 'squaws'. I never knew it as anything other than a word for a Native American woman. We also used to say 'red indians' which as an adult I know is a non-PC term, but I never gave squaw another thought.
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