lunedì 25 maggio 2015

PC - Political Correctness

Political Correctness means using words or behavior which will not offend any group of people. Most people think it is important for everyone to be treated equally, fairly and with dignity. Some words have been used for a long time that are unkind to some people. Sometimes these words have now been replaced by other words that are not offensive. Such words are described as politically correct. The term is often used in a mocking sense when attempts at avoiding offense are seen to go too far.
Political correctness- or PC for short - is the latest trend in United States in linguistic etiquette. There are a lot of inoffensive terms in THE OFFICIAL POLITICALLY CORRECT DICTIONARY AND HANDBOOK. 

Here you have some examples:
Politically correct = "culturally sensitive" or "appropriately inclusive"
Artificial/synthetic = "man-made"
Himself/herself = "coself'' - gender-neutral substitute
AIDS victim = "person living with AIDS" or "PLA/PLWA" in short
Prostitutes = "sex workers"
Wives = "domestic incarceration survivors"
Fat people = "horizontally challenged"
Bald men = "hair disadvantaged"
Bespectacled = "optically challenged"
Man and woman = "melanin impoverished human animals"
Blacks = African-Americans or Caribbean-Americans
Pregnant woman = "parasitically oppressed"
Dead = "living impaired"
Homeless = "residentially flexible"
Poor = "financially inept"


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