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Acceptable and non-acceptable languageAnswers1. That person’s half-caste.Acceptable in the past but not today because its origins are in the Hindu caste system and being half-castemeant that you didn’t belong to either your father’s or your mother’s caste.2. That person’s coloured.Not acceptable. The term was common in the past but because it was used as an insult it is no longeracceptable in the UK. Also it implies that people who are ‘white’ are without colour.3. That person’s black.Acceptable. Under the Commission for Racial Equality guidelines refers to African-Caribbean, Asian,Chinese and other minority ethnic groups. However many people of minority ethnic origin prefer to bedescribed by their country of origin or ethnicity not by a colour.4. That person’s mixed race.Acceptable but it can sometimes have negative connotations. The term ‘mixed cultural heritage’ is also usedin education.5. That person’s black but he’s British.The problem here is the word ‘but’ since it is used to show something is different.6. That person’s black and he’s British.Acceptable. Statement of two facts linked as in a list by the word ‘and’.7. That person’s Black Welsh.Acceptable and being used increasingly more often by people to refer to themselves.8. He’s wearing a turban so he must be a Paki.Turbans are worn by Sikhs, some Hindus, and also some people from Afghanistan, who are Moslem. Sikhsfirst came from the Punjab area in India and Pakistan. Paki is often used incorrectly or in a negative wayto refer all people from Pakistan, India and Bangladesh.9. That person’s Afro-Caribbean.Becoming unacceptable. More and more, people whose families came from the Caribbean islands preferthe term African Caribbean.10. That person’s African Caribbean.Acceptable to describe black people from the Carribean but people often prefer to be identified by theirisland of origin, for example, Jamacian.How do you prefer to describe your ethnicity?125
Racist IncidentFamily is forcedout by racistsA FAMILY say constant racist abuse has driven them from theirhome and business.The Anwars, who ran EBI Minimarket in Grangetown, Cardiff,have left the shop after the stress became too much.Dr Muhammad Anwar said: “Our family took over thebusiness in September 2003 but problems started in March.“People were swearing at us, calling us ‘Pakis’ and saying ‘goback to your country’.“It started happening every day. It made our lives miserable.”The family said that as well as verbal abuse, stones werethrown at the shop and youths urinated in the Powderham Drivestore’s carpark.Dr Anwar, 56, said the last straw came earlier this month whana man entered the shop and threatened him.“He was in the biscuits section and summoned me over,” saidDr Anwar. “Then he came rushing over to me, held me and shookme.”“He was going to hit me but I blocked him.”His wife Salma, 48 said: “The man stood there and said to fixthe security camera on him, because he was going to dosomething.”Lauren Turnerlauren.turner@wme.co.ukIt was one of several incidents the family reported to police.But now they have decided it is time to go.“We didn’t want anyone to get hurt or killed,” said Dr Anwar.“But we never expected this kind of thing could happen in the21st century and in an enlightened century.“We were being terrorised so we decided to close the shop andsafeguard ourselves.”The Anwars, who have two sons Adeel, 21 and Ebad, 20, andtwo daughters, Shehla, 26 and Asma, 24, handed the shop back tothe landlords and moved out of Wales this week.They are now looking for work – but said they will never workin a shop again.A police spokeswoman confirmed: “We have investigated anumber of racially-motivated incidents involving Dr Anwar andhis family in recent months.”© South Wales Echo, 2003. Reproduced with permission.South Wales Echo, October 20041. What is the name of the family?2. How many people are there in the family?3. Are the children young or grown up?4. Was the racial abuse verbal or physical, direct or indirect?5. What did the family finally decide to do?6. Why have the family decided to do this?7. Is anyone accused of a crime in this newspaper article?Discussa) How do you think Dr Anwar feels?b) How do you think you would feel in the same situation?c) What do you think you would do in the same situation?d) Do you think the police could have done more to help the Anwars? What?e) What do you think of the newspaper article? Is it good?126
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