tailieunhanh - Dangerous English 3rd Edition by Elizabeth Claire 7

Tham khảo tài liệu 'dangerous english 3rd edition by elizabeth claire 7', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | EasyEnglish One sign of the tension is the names that people call other groups. Some of these labels are meant to be humorous. Others are insults. The words have a history of being said with anger or discrimination. Since many of these terms are extremely offensive someone hearing them may get angry enough even to fight. The newcomer or foreign visitor in the United States should learn the correct names of each national and racial group. If you use derogatory names people may think that you are a bigot a person who holds prejudices and treats others unfairly . You could get into very bad trouble Even for Americans it isn t easy to know which names are OK. A name for a certain group may be an insult in California but acceptable on the East Coast. The correct names for groups of people can in fact change. Also older people in a group may use a name for themselves but one that younger people take as an insult. Similarly a member of a group may use a derogatory name for his own group but may get angry if someone else uses that word. Within just a few years after this book is published some of the names that we include as acceptable may change. Hopefully one day people will say There is only one race and that s the human race. We are all citizens of one planet. If so maybe people can stop worrying about names of all sorts. Warning In the following list of names that people have called others you will find some of the most dangerous and offensive words in all of the English language. First what might you the readers of this book be called alien Cei li on noun. Once acceptable this word is beginning to sound offensive in some contexts. A person who is living in or visiting a country of which he or she is not a citizen. The word is also used to refer to a science fiction creature from outer space. foreign adjective. From another country. OK in the expression foreign country and in foreign-born but on college campuses it is no longer politically .