Words are indeed powerful. It can be uttered in a manner that conveys rudeness, an act of verbal abuse, and taunting an offensive language against a culture, gender, race, lifestyle and ideology. The birth of politically correct (or PC) terminology in the late 1970s was used to promote the practice of speech that that is not disparaging or disadvantageous.
PC words were coined to foster increasing tolerance for the diversity of culture, political sensitivity (race, gender, ideology). However, some PC words are made to poke fun or to best describe a persona in a gentle manner. Like for example. ” He is short”. Instead of short, it is more politically correct to say “He is vertically challenged”.
The following are examples of politically correct words/terms.
Instead of ---------------------Politically correct
- Bald----------------------comb free
- Bisexual------------------sexually non-preferential
- Black---------------------of African descent (or African-American)
- Blind----------------------optically darker, photonically non-receptive
- Broken home--------------dysfunctional family
- Bum-----------------------homeless person,displaced homeowner
- Convict--------------------socially separated
- Deaf-----------------------visually oriented
- Drug addict----------------chemically challenged
- Fireman-------------------firefighter
- Handicapped---------------physically challenged, dfferently abled
- Housewife------------------domestic engineer
- Insane people---------------selectively perceptive,mental explorers
- Midget,dwarf---------------little people,vertically challenged
- Fat person------------------horizontally challenged
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