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Q&A How do I have to refer to a person of a specific racial group?

It depends largely on context. White girl can definitely be seen as a derogatory term, and is quite often used as such. No one, outside of bad American police drama, refers to people in conversati...

posted 6y ago by Thomo‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#2: Initial revision by user avatar Thomo‭ · 2019-12-08T07:54:52Z (almost 5 years ago)
It depends largely on context. White girl can definitely be seen as a derogatory term, and is quite often used as such.

No one, outside of bad American police drama, refers to people in conversation as "Caucasian".

It's also a problem that is solved the first time the characters have a conversation, or indeed the other character opens their mouth and talks. When travelling, or meeting someone who is also foreign, or indeed talking to someone for the first time who has a different accent (or even just talking to someone for the first time in a social settings), on of the first questions people ask is "Where are you from?" - or at the very least, words to that effect.

That said, it is also dependent on what the other character looks like and where she is from. People from different countries also look (to a degree) different and sound very different. It's stereotyping to a point, but they are sterotypes for a reason.

It's damned near impossible to confuse an English accent, for example, with an American twang, or an Irish lilt. And for Europeans for whom English is not their first language, their accent determines the inflection and pronunciation of different words.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2018-02-12T05:21:32Z (over 6 years ago)
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