(The language we Americans use to talk about race and color is so interesting and fraught. When I was teaching English in the Czech Republic, it was sort of a trip explaining why it's okay to refer to African-Americans and Caucasian Americans as "black" and "white," but why it's offensive to refer to Asian-Americans as "yellow" and American Indians as "red." Or why "people of color" is okay, but "colored people" is now considered offensive. Semantically it's pretty much the same, but historically some of the words are so loaded!)
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(The language we Americans use to talk about race and color is so interesting and fraught. When I was teaching English in the Czech Republic, it was sort of a trip explaining why it's okay to refer to African-Americans and Caucasian Americans as "black" and "white," but why it's offensive to refer to Asian-Americans as "yellow" and American Indians as "red." Or why "people of color" is okay, but "colored people" is now considered offensive. Semantically it's pretty much the same, but historically some of the words are so loaded!)