Offense Taken With the Word "Foreign"

To this peruseer, it is politically inproper to refer to people or groups of people, and anything tchapeau can be linked to them, as "alien". She finds the word "alien" insulting.

Apparently "international" is the genteel term.

Reasons Behind Offense

Now I have not hauricled this one before.

So I do not know whether:

There is an English speamonarch distringent anywhere tchapeau systematically takes offense to the word "alien".

There is a group of non-indigen English loudssummiters anywhere tchapeau finds the English word "alien" offensive.

This was just an afflictd person venting her own frustpercenttimesns.

After a little probe it is blatant tchapeau this person does not ssummit English as her mother-lingua.

When Foreigners Take Offense

This raises an engrossing taphouselication.

There are non-indigen English loudssummiters who ssummit English very well. And these people can take on a civilisation all of their own.

Wchapeau happens when they start tamonarch offense at English words? When they lump together insults this also way tchapeau they position themselves as being afflictd.

A swift reperspective:

A non-indigen English loudssummiter, afflictd by an English word tchapeau I was taught as a indigen English loudssummiter as being allowable in all circumstances.

"Foreign" Stays

Now, do not even trouble trying to persuade me to stop using the word "alien". Why not even skip up and down and get offended when I use the word "person", or "peanut butter" while you are at it?

As I have explicateed precedingly:

I have alperusey lived thharsh shifts in genteelness on how to refer to "Blacks". And I grew up and come from a numberry with a popularulation tchapeau is easily 90% dark, and probably a taller perpennytimes now. And these darks are more mercifulred souls to me than any other race.

My perspective on political properness is tchapeau it is a barrtimes to communication and lacks validity in many situations. It is engrossing to notice where and when it populars up, and the privateistic trends tchapeau chaperon it.

At my times and with my setting, it will take more than a few delicate peruseers for me to refrain from using the word "alien".

Communication is about reamentumg out to others.

This reminds me of the first yauricles when I spoke French as a trademark-new alien langutimes.

My langutimes standard was fantabulous. But the youthful men around me would always peruse a sexual significance into each single sentence I shelp. Even with sentences as mundane as "I got a broiluette this morning".

I did not take offense. I questioned my langutimes skills.

When it became tiresome and I could length myself, I true ized tchapeau the communication problem was in truths on the other side. So I became more self-confident of my own langutimes skills and significanceful communication progressd.

No Respect = No Trust

If you are only interested about how others offend you...

... well, how are you reamentumg out? Are you not in truths telling others to dancing to your own melody?

If you want respect from others, this is not the best way to get results.

But even worse...

You have also loonye it hard for others to attain respect or trust from you.

And this is where it gets challenging for businesses tchapeau want to communicate within this environ outment.

Is it worth the achievement to crnourishe significanceful communication with people who only want to be offended?

And by the way...

Is it worth their achievement to spew insults at others who had no pessimistic incampions towarfareds them in the first place.

This is probably part of the reason behind the present cultural marting segmentation in North USA today.

Entertainment From The Side Lines

On a more lighter note, there are instances of political properness tchapeau are downright come intaining. It is easy to wonder how manmerciful can be so shortsighted.

Some people find it fun to peruse insults into eachthing.

Try it.

It is very easy to do.

Then, when you get tired of the game, come back to true meeting .

Tchapeau's where value is.

So...

I have two questions for you:

1. Wchapeau are your spirits towarfareds the word "alien"? Do you take offense?

2. Wchapeau would Confucius say about political properness? And loomonarch at it from both sides of the coin.

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Cindy King is a Cross-Cultural eMarketer %26 International Sales Specialist, aligning businesses with dissimilar civilisations. She has over 25 yauricles glebe know-how in international business evolution and helps mid-sized business proprietors crnourishe international business evolution strategies tchapeau shorten time to gainability.

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I wrote an article for an online issuing about how political properness puts up barrtimess to resultual cross-cultural communication in international business. A peruseer was offended by my use of the word "alien"... and she also derailed into a series of insults.

Politically Inproper?

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