Political Correctness in Russia

[Robert Orr]

> Valeriy,
>
> The issue can be confused even more.
>
> African American (is there a difference between Afro-American and African 
> American?  I really don't know) can be a loaded term too.
>
> Some years ago there was a case in, I think, Kansas where, every year it 
> was customary for a school district to name an "outstanding 
> African-American student of the year." One year a recent immigrant from 
> South Africa, an Afrikaaner girl, was given the award, to the 
> consternation of the higher-ups. She was told she did not qualify, and had 
> it withdrawn.
>
> Can Afrikaaners not count as "African Americans"?  I think we should be 
> told.
>
>>I am a bit confused with Russian understanding of PC:
>> «Президентом будет черный, – неполиткорректно заметила Дюваль. – Выберут
>> Обаму».
>> Prezidentom budet chernyj,- nepolitkorrektno zametil Duval, Vyberut 
>> Obamu.
>> http://www.gazeta.ru/social/2008/10/22/2862684.shtml<http://1001.vdv.ru/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t4784.html>
>> does it mean that "*black*" regarding Afro-American is also not PC? What
>> then
>> Russians should say?
>> P.S. All this resembles me Ukrainians forcing Russians to say V Ukraine,
>> instead of NA Ukraine.
>> Sorry for being possibly not too PC.
>> Really confused (again lost in between two cultures? :-).
>> --
>> Валерий Белянин / Valeri Belianine, doktor nauk in psycholinguistics
>> Психолингвистический форум = http://mospsy.ru/phorum/list.php?f=2
>>
> 

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