Timeline for Is the word 'minority' offensive? [closed]
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| Sep 7, 2015 at 4:28 | history | closed |
Kreiri M.A.R. CRABOLO Scott - Слава Україні user3169 |
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| Sep 2, 2015 at 16:52 | comment | added | chauxvive | I come from the Eastern US and I would say "minority" is perfectly appropriate and used often in the news and scholarly writing. | |
| Sep 2, 2015 at 13:48 | answer | added | Caleb Jay | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 2, 2015 at 11:16 | comment | added | Brian Hitchcock | Some areas of the US, and especially certain parts of some US cities, have already reached this point. Then the word "minority" starts to lose its value. I have heard such areas called "majority minority". This is understood to mean that white people do not constitute the majority. | |
| Sep 2, 2015 at 11:15 | comment | added | Brian Hitchcock | As one comment in that "other good question" stated, you wouldn't want to call someone a "minority" to his face; you would need yo use the appropriate specific-but-not-offensive word for that person's race/ethnicity. When refferring to entire groups of minorities, it's fine. (note that a combination of minorities could constitute a plurality, if there is not one racial group that constitutes a majority. | |
| Sep 2, 2015 at 9:46 | comment | added | shin | I think there's nothing wrong or offensive in using it, as long as the context needs something factual, like in a pie graph, where the minority can be determined. And I think it is more of a euphemism, when used in proper context. (I noticed that journalists tend to use the word, instead of using biased terms) | |
| Sep 2, 2015 at 9:34 | history | edited | Maulik V | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 2, 2015 at 8:10 | comment | added | Damkerng T. | On a different note, I believe that in some occasions, we need to be even more careful with the word special than minority. In any case, I don't think that, in spoken English, the word itself is offensive, but the intent or the way it's delivered can be. | |
| Sep 2, 2015 at 7:36 | comment | added | CipherBot | I can't represent the whole of Australia but I would say minority isn't offensive here. | |
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| Sep 2, 2015 at 5:02 | history | asked | Maulik V | CC BY-SA 3.0 |