re: Do you say "Black" or "African American"?

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Well technically you can still use the term--to refer to goods, certain aspects of culture, etc. It is considered impolite to refer to people that way. I honestly don't know why it's such a touchy term, though. It simply means "eastern." People outside Europe and North America call us westerners--including Russians (who are white Eurasians).

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