Posted on 07/29/2015 11:34:01 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
The University of New Hampshire has issued a Bias-Free Language Guide which identifies the word “American” as a “problematic” term which should not be used.
Other “problematic” words on the taxpayer-funded school’s lengthy list include “mothering,” “fathering,” “healthy,” “homosexual,” “rich,” “poor” and “senior citizen,” notes Campus Reform.
The goal of the politically-correct UNH Bias-Free Language Guide is “to invite inclusive excellence” on the public campus.
The guide’s broad and extensive, 4,812-word attempt to police language includes an introductory quote by Melissa Harris-Perry and covers virtually every nook and cranny of radical leftist identity politics imaginable.
The word “American” is “problematic,” according to the University of New Hampshire, because it “assumes the U.S. is the only country inside” land masses — North America, South America and Central America — with the word “America” in their names.
The UNH language guide decrees that language users should say “U.S. citizen” or “resident of the U.S.” instead.
For skin color, the taxpayer-funded school in the Live-Free-or-Die state instructs speakers to say “European-American individuals” instead of “Caucasian.”
Also, employees at the University of New Hampshire present as passive-voice fact the notion that the concept of race “was designed to maintain slavery.”
The words “mothering” and “fathering” are verboten because speakers must “avoid gendering a non-gendered activity.”
The word “black” for black people is okay, though.
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We’ll have to agree to disagree.
Ask yourself what is meant when people address ‘the Americas’. Your interpretation would mean they could only be talking about the United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas
Any person living on the North, Central, or South American Continents is an American.
You can’t simply change the rules because one nation used the word in it’s name.
European, Asian, American...
“Oh BTW, there’s American The Beautiful. It isn’t talking about Canada or Chile.”
It’s America the Beautiful:
O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America! God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
O beautiful for pilgrim feet,
Whose stern impassion’d stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America! God mend thine ev’ry flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law!
O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved,
And mercy more than life!
America! America! May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness,
And ev’ry gain divine!
O Beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam,
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America! God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
And take a visit to any South American town and the will agree with a previous poster that America refers to both Continents. United States of America refers to fifty united states on the continent of America. Because we call ourselves Americans does not mean Citizens of the USA are the only “Americans”.
And you are wrong when you stated that if you google for a map of america you only get the USA. By going to google.com/maps and doing a search on “America” you get both North and South America.
You need a little geography lesson there chief, because you could also apply some of the verses in the song I posted to Canada but not Chile.
‘American’ was a typo. Sorry.
I lived in Colombia, SA for a number of years as a kid. Never, ever heard anyone there call themselves ‘Americans’ or even ‘South Americans’. They were Colombians, or Brazilians, or Chileans, or whatever. But they never were ‘Americans.’ But they all wanted to visit ‘America.”
But according to you, they were already there.
As far as the maps, I said Google ‘map of America’ as I did here:
When you do this you get multiple maps of America. Not Canada, not Central America, and not South America.
You get a map of America.
As far as America the Beautiful, do you seriously think that a song published in 1910, that contains patriots and pilgrims, and using the phrase America, America over and over, referred to anything but the United States of America.
Just because you think you can apply it to other countries doesn’t make it so.
We’ll have to agree to disagree.
Ask yourself what is meant when people address ‘the Americas’. Your interpretation would mean they could only be talking about the United States.
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You’ve just changed the context. The Americas (plural) does apply to the North American, Central American, and South American continents. No problem.
As I said in another post, I lived in Colombia, SA and never heard anyone refer to themselves as an ‘American.’ But they all wanted to visit America.
Why? According to you they were already there.
Google “songs about America” and show me one that’s talking about Canada or South America.
Canada’s ‘Oh Canada’ doesn’t mention anything about being an ‘American’, not does any of the South American countries’ anthems that I was able to track down.
Nice try.
BWAHAHA!!! I am SO stealing that line!
Well said.
Not morons. They know that fear-based fascism works very well these days and they’re using it. And you and I both know the government, media, ABA, and DOJ have their back.
I suppose it’s your contention that when someone talks about being an African, they have to have come from South Africa.
LMAO
Defund these anti-reality and anti-logic losers. These idiots should be fired and exiled. What a bunch of parasites who are complete fools.
Nope.
‘African’ is generally known as relating to the African continent.
Otherwise all African-Americans would be from South Africa.
South Africans are just that, South Africans.
Do you know the pledge of allegiance by heart?
Whose flag do you pledge allegiance to?
I’m beginning to wonder if you folks even know what nation you’re in.
So you’re trying to say that because the Pledge of Allegiance refers to the “Flag of the United States of America”, that ‘American’ or ‘America’ doesn’t refer to the United States of American, but the North and South American continents?
I never said that the full official name of the US isn’t The United States of America. (note I used another name for America that everyone knows.)
Everyone knows what America or American refers to. Just like the official name of Canada is the Dominion of Canada, but no ones says ‘I’m flying to the Dominion of Canada tomorrow.’
Again, Google ‘American Songs’ or ‘American Patriotic Songs’. Think any of what comes up refers to South American or Canada songs?
I notice that you keep bringing up new stuff without answering any of my points about people, maps, or songs.
Why is that?
I wonder how the French deal with this. Including the French speaking Canadians.
I’m no expert, but isn’t the entire French language built around using gender?
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