me neither. cant keep up with what is and isnt offensive nowadays. load of bullst.

In South Africa today
- Black usually refers to pitch black. Usually from Northern Africa. Not native to Southern Africa.
- White refers to the white man.
- Coloured is everything in between. I had friends who had slightly olive skin who referred to themselves as coloured, as well as the darker skinned folk also referring to themselves as coloured.

Their way, their ideology, their terminology. So its utterly baffling to me that the word isn't politically correct over here.

Cape Towns Argus newspaper returns 11'000 results for the word coloured.
Its part of the lingo, perfectly polite and totally non offensive.
http://www.iol.co.za/search-results-page?q=coloure...

Must be a British/European thing. Political correctness gone mad again...

The PC lot don't want us to be able to keep up. If we use outdated, non-approved terminology then we appear ignorant and out of touch. This gives them moral superiority over us.

Crazy isn't it?

I'm white. I have no issue with somebody describing me as such, because it's factually correct. Similarly I don't see any problem with describing someone else as black/chinese/indian/asian, as long as it's correct.

I completely agree that derogatory terms shouldn't be used, but as long as descriptive terms are used without malice, what's the problem?

And there are plenty of people out there who seem to make a career out of being offended or even worse - being offended on behalf of others.

Professional s. Might not be PC but very accurate.

At least we aren't Pandas.
Poor sods are black and white and Asian...

So not sure what the term is then - seriously confusing.

Wish everyone would just lighten up (in the emotional and not colour sense - I'm no relation to Jacko).

So hard to describe someone - my friend at work was trying to describe one of his best friends to another colleague who was looking for him in the office...out of the sea of white faces he was the only ethnic.

Rather than just say, it's the indian/asian guy over there - he had the convulted stripped shirt, tall guy, specs, sits 3 banks in, opposite that blonde lady - I couldn't help but chuckle!!!

I agree with this. I think the PC Brigade have gone too far. I always use the term 'black guy/woman' and don't feel I am insulting anyone. If I was the only white person in a room full of blacks and someone had to pick me out and said 'The white person', I wouldn't be offended.

A chap at work, Tyrone, asked me if he could have access to the colour printer.

I said "Tyrone, in this day and age you can have access to any printer you want!"