Word: terme
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Hispanics, it seems, have decided that this vague term does not adequately describe all of those it attempts to describe. And Asian-Americans have successfully lobbied to delineate Asian groups in the 1990 census, adding Samoans and Guamanians to the list...
America's long-term economic decline has been greatly exacerbated in recent years by the Reagan Administration's tight policy on information controls. Over the past eight years, in the name of national security, the Reagan Administration expanded controls on the publication of scientific research, attempted to impose prepublication reviews of research results, broadened the classification of information, and restricted the free exchange of knowledge with foreign scholars...
This movement is an old one, and it has been embraced by some of the nation's 30 million people who could be described as Black. Black-run newspapers and radio stations have been using the term with regularity, while the Boston Globe is allowing its individual writers the freedom to choose their preferred term...
Clearly, there are problems with each term, but there will be problems with just about any term that Blacks choose. Names applied to a people oppressed will eventually be seen as a device used by others to continue to keep them down...
...Black" has also developed negative connotations, but there is no real reason to use the term "African-American" other than to provide a motivational tune-up. Chances are that a decade from now "African-American" will develop its own negative imagery and will have to be cast on the heap of bad identifiers...