[pendy]

I don't necessarily agree with Ifty about names not meaning anything, some expressions can be demeaning. Changing the way we talk about people can have an effect on the way we see them. However I do think that PC causes more trouble than it would ever be worth. Any form of discrimination, positive or negative, reinforces stereotyped ideas, which can only be bad. The trouble is really that when people want to be separate, to live by separate rules, and to follow a different social and moral code than the natives (i.e. us), then they set themselves against the natives in a very real sense.

What is worse is that we are constantly told that we should respect the cultures of others, when a great many of them seem to have little or no respect for our culture, and in fact seem to want to replace it with their own.