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Ive lived all over the world with my job. In S Africa you cant call a black a coloured as this refers to mixed race, you cant call a coloured a black and in the USA I was told by a man that I called black that he was actually Afro Caribbean. I have heard that blacks with a hint of a mixed race like Tiger Woods, don't like being called Black at all. Its a bloody minefield and as someone has said, it will all change in a couple of years time.

The stupidest thing I have ever heard in my life was a fellow golfer at a tournament in Vegas, asking a black man why he was called black when he was brown. This black person had the start delayed and had my friend ejected for racial abuse saying he called him a Brownie. He didn't, he said why don't people call you Brownies but he was English and didn't know Brownies referred to a cake.

This was a while ago granted but to complain and get a tournament closed down and to blackmail a sponsor in order to get a man evicted for such a silly thing just goes to show how PC our world is getting to.