necoandjeff wrote:
> "Musashi" <Miyamoto@Hosokawa.co.jp> wrote in message
> news:%610d.14217$FV3.7873@newssvr17.news.prodigy.com...
>> 
>> "Marc Adler" <marc.adler@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:WK00d.181$XW.36@twister.socal.rr.com...
>>> Musashi wrote:
>>> 
>>>> You know, I don't think people in Japan are aware that the word
>>>> "eskimo" (which is the same in Japanese) is derogatory.
>>>> At least I didn't.
>>> 
>>> What?! How can it be derogatory? That's where we get our word for
>>> 'skiing,' for chrissake.
>>> 
>> 
>> As I said, I had no idea but the site given (
>> http://www.freespiritgallery.ca/ )
>> states;
>> 
>> "Just for your information, the term Eskimo is now considered
>> derogatory and has been
>> replaced by the more acceptable term Inuit. Eskimo is used in this
>> website only as a reference
>> term for our international customers who may not be aware of the term
>> Inuit."
> 
> On the scale of racially derogatory terms, where the "N" word is at
> the high end (i.e. the most widely understood to be derogatory), I
> think the word Eskimo would be at the low end, below even the words
> Oriental and Black (both of which are still widely used) but probably
> a little bit higher than the word White.
> 
> Jeff

What's so offensive about "Black"?  Is it the unneeded capital letter?

-- 
Curt Fischer