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Published: 08.12.2003.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
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Choose five words that are seen as politically incorrect and explain the issues they raise. Discuss how significant you think political correctness is in language.
The Five politically incorrect words I have nominated are: coon, nigger, gay, handycapped ,and Raghead.
I will introduce my essay with all the certain types of political correctness and their cardinal importance throughout the twentieth century.
Some of the most loaded words in the English language are those associated with the way society talks about itself, and especially about groups of people whom it perceives to be disadvantaged or oppressed. The most sensitive domains are to do with race, gender, sexual orientation, ecology, religion and (physical or mental) personal development. During the 1980's,an increasing number of people became concerned to eradicate what they saw to be prejudice (especially language prejudice) in these areas. The label racialist was already known from the return of the century, and racist from the 1930's. Followed by a series of other -ist terms that focussed on real or imagined areas of linguistic discrimination.…

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