Why is everybody so concerned with political correctness when it shouldn't really matter.
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Depends where you are though. I used to spend a lot of time with a friend in a wheelchair. Here in the UK she would be referred to a disabled. An American we knew called her handicapped one day, which is ok in the US, here it is quite offensive.
I have many black friends, calling them coloured would be eyebrow raising at the very least, and I would expect some to be offended, yet it seems as if this is the correct word in (some parts of) the US.
I watch "The Big Bang Theory", it is ok, typical US light entertainment - all about relationships, jobs, friendships, yadda yadda, but with some good geeky stuff going on and they tend to get thier facts right, yet I am regularly shocked by what I perceive as casual and quite offensive racism. But I very much doubt the Americans view it that way and I am sure it is not intended.
On the internet it seems very difficult as there are few universally accepted "correct" terms.
Watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVN_0qvuhhw
