On Jun 19, 2013, at 3:57 PM, Aaron Yi DING <yding@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Well, if the dominant ones later being replaced by other groups, do we need to revamp again? What will be the end? I'm told that white babies are now a minority of the population in the US. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2341066/Whites-soon-minority-American-children-age-5.html It's all about political correctness. It is not politically correct to comment on women unless you are one and hate men. It is not politically correct to comment on whatever-they're-called-this-week, black, negro, afro-americans, or whatever. It is not politically correct to comment on hispanics, or to note that they are not a race; they might be a culture, but for the most part they are people who grew up outside spain but speak - or whose parents speak - some derivative of spanish as a native language. Or Asians, for that matter. But it is absolutely politically correct to make racist and sexist remarks - the same remarks that would draw outrage and umbrage if made about any of a list of other groups - about people who happen to be caucasian and male. A conversation from the 1993 movie Gettysburg comes to mind. Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain: Tell me something, Buster... What do you think of Negroes? Sergeant 'Buster' Kilrain: Well, if you mean the race, I don't really know. This is not a thing to be ashamed of. The thing is, you cannot judge a race. Any man who judges by the group is a pea-wit. You take men one at a time. I would replace "man" or "men" with "person" or "people" in the observation, and would agree with it. There are a lot of pea-wits in the world. Some of them are white males. Many are not.