Responding to the first question is it time for a language to move on. I my thoughts contradict each other quiet frequently on this topic because when you think of the terms people use today it doesn’t phase them as much as it would have if we were living in a time when people were fighting for rights to equality. we all know these terms so I do not need to mention any.
when talking about classifying some one with a single race usually being the majority of what they are. i feel this is easier when it comes to feeling out a survey or doing the S.A.T. because if you included every race known to man kind it would be at least two pages of paper that could have been saved.
the side i agree with how ever though would have to be using terms. this is because you could randomly be walking down the street and over hear someone calling someone a "dirty Mexican" which is wrong but to a group of friends who talk like that it is normal. Since the issue of biracial came up it just becomes a phrase that someone uses just like, "seeing a man about a horse." it loses its real meaning. and changes over time.
If language never progressed then people would be speaking Old English and I personally think that would be weird. the point of human nature is to "change," like Obama says. over time this happens and when it does we get new inventions and new ideas to help the less fortunate.
just like advancements in every other area of life, language should follow as well. just like it has been. so terms that were created to inuslt or make some one smile can change and take on a hole new meaning. this is sometimes good and bad. it is up to you to decide.
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