Ralph and Nicolas - I fully agree with you both. While I can somehow understand American fixations on political correctness, I find it highly inappropriate when Americans want to impose their own fixations on the whole world.
An assumption that everybody has to view the political/social issues exactly like Americans (only some group of Americans, in fact), and find the same things important that are important to Americans (again, only some Americans) is just offending to non-Americans. Some Americans may be hyper-sensitive to the word "black", but rest of the world generally has absolutely no issues with that word. Do you realize this? -- Regards, Jaroslaw Rafa r...@rafa.eu.org -- "In a million years, when kids go to school, they're gonna know: once there was a Hushpuppy, and she lived with her daddy in the Bathtub."