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A comment on Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative. Parent comment

Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by umanwizard on Monday December 19, 2022 @05:13AM (#34050455)
In order to interpret this stuff correctly you have to understand that we’re talking about ethnic/cultural groups in the US, not in Latin America.

There are not many Argentines in the US, so the distinction rarely comes up.

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Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by rsj_hn on Monday December 19, 2022 @05:20AM (#34050493)
If you want to know why, in the US, we call someone an "X-American", whether that is a German-American, Latin-American, Hispanic-American, African-American, then you need to know where these terms come from. Words always have a historical, rather than a logical, explanation.
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