POLICE ESOL Cover - Cities of Migration

Acceptable and non-acceptable languageWords change over time. Words that were acceptable in the past are now considered to be insulting orderogatory. Sometimes, however, people use terms to describe their ethnic origins that other peopleconsider to be derogatory.Remember also, that it is not always what you say but how you say it that matters.Have you ever heard these words?Which do you think are acceptable to say and which aren’t? Why?1. That person’s half-caste.2. That person’s coloured.3. That person’s black.4. That person’s mixed race.5. That person’s black but he’s British.6. That person’s black and he’s British.7. That person’s Black Welsh.8. He’s wearing a turban so he must be a Paki.9. That person’s Afro-Caribbean10. That person’s African Caribbean.124