Thread: why is the term half-caste offensive?
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Old 13-05-2010, 03:49 PM #26
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And I can't come away from what the intent was behind the name: In my eyes half will always mean less than full, not whole. To me, it's a derogatory term just in it's meaning alone so yeah, I have no use for it.
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