Is there a "Safe List" of ethnically correct verbiage that everyone can agree upon? One of the reasons I ask is because I grew up in an "ethnically diverse" neighborhood which consisted of a majority of "minorities" and, despite what term or level of PC terminology you used, someone would take offense to it. Therefore, since this type of discussion is more subjective than objective, I think we need to see a little more tolerance on both sides of the fence. Likewise, in one of my previous positions, I was involved in a similar discussion with someone who was trying to convince me that I was prejudice to all minorites simply because I have had a caucasian upbringing. All too often, presumptions and assumptions are made by some from their own vantage point vs those of the other parties involved. Much of this debate is contingent upon actions, terms, etc, from earlier periods in world history where these terms have have had adverse intentions. Although I regret that these occurrances happend - despite the fact that I personally had nothing to do with them - I can only see one solution to the issue: We must all strive to "clean the slate" and try to start over again. What has happened over 150-200 years ago is atrocious by today's standards, but no one living today had any affect or influence over that time period. Holding modern ethnicities responsible for past atrocities seems to be the hub upon which this debate relies upon; and is an imperfect approach at a solution. I believe that as one human race, we have striven to see the errors of the past and the vast majority of the world's populace has taken conscious steps to avoid repeating the errors of others. We all must come forth to the 21st Century and realize that we only have control of our own actions and minimal control over the actions of others. Any "categorizing", "generalizations", "labeling", "stereotyping", etc of one segment of the populace of another is going to result in adversity between the two. The best we can do is to try to come to some sort of compromise in which the greatest percentage of people can agree upon. Another brief point, I hope, is that this debate seems to be over the use of words and their negative connotations. Words are mere representations in text or other media to describe, as closely as possible, the intent of the individual using them. Words themself carry no emotional baggage except for the weight that the observer puts on them. We have to start to disassociate our own personal "emotional baggage" that we attach to words from words used by others. Simply discussing these differences between the parties involved usually equates to a real solution 90% of them time. The other 10% can be attributed to human behavior or other factors.