Word: referents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...black, three-ring binder, Barnaby carries a list of standards published by the Cat Fanciers Association, but he rarely needs to refer to them. He has been around cats since his grandmother lost her dog to a Buick and bought a Tabby. Someone told him that he had a "good eye for cats...
...council moved to refer the issue of formulating new standards to the Public Advisory Committee...
...notice a big change when they read the sports pages. Starting this week, the state's largest daily (circ. 354,000) will no longer publish the names or nicknames of sports teams that employ racial or ethnic stereotypes, such as the Braves, Redskins, Indians and Redmen. Instead it will refer only to the cities or states where they play...
...true. Would Americans be upset if, say, Canadian investors offered to buy the Seattle Mariners? Probably no more than they are that Canadians already own the Montreal Expos and the Toronto Blue Jays. Says Linda Cunningham, editor of the Rockford, Ill., Register-Star: "There is an increasing willingness to refer to the 'Japs,' and to talk openly about things that might have been said only privately in their own living rooms. There now seems to be a respectability attached to a subtle return of racism...
...label images like the above are not dehumanizing prejudices but quick ways of describing the general character of a group. No one claims they accurately represent every individual or that they are the last word on the groups to which they refer...