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How We Use Language Describing Gender and Race

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Examples of gender-inclusive nouns for general use. These are small seemingly innocuous comments that can pile up over time and affect a persons sense of self and identity. Dictionary Com Releases Its Biggest Update Ever Dictionary Com During our race series on this blog we wrote about microaggressions that people on our staff had experienced related to their race or culture. . To avoid equating a person with a skin color. Although gender typing can involve a number of different features we limit the present review to behavioral-type variables eg play with same-sex peers. Everyone or everybody distinguished guests folks or folx friends humans individuals loved ones person people yall. Use language that acknowledges that we have diverse relationships and families. In others all three are related as in Tok Pisin an English creole spoken in Papua New Guinea singular mi exclusive mi-pela and inclusive yu-mi a compound of mi wi...