Not every society needs to confront the same issues or troubling
legacies.
I live in a country where painting your face black is perfectly
acceptable. It’s done by thousands of people every February and blacks
and “lubolos” (whites in black face) perform all together in
ensembles called “Comparsas”. It’s been going on since the 1870s.
See
[https://carnavaldelfuturo.uy/2006/12/15/la-historia-de-los-negros-y-lubolos/]
in Spanish, Google translate can be your friend.
We do have a troubling past when it comes to our land’s native
inhabitants.
If we are to re-engineer all language, then it would only make sense to
aim for the “lowest common denominator”, that language that offends
no one and triggers no one. I believe this subset of language to be the
empty set or very close to it, but that’s just IMO.
/Carlos
On 24 Jul 2020, at 6:11, Masataka Ohta wrote:
I'm saying the document and the references are all too
much US centric ignoring both the original and established
meaning of "slave".
