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To: Saikat DebRoy <saikat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Freeciv Development Mailing List <freeciv-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] Human races [was: Nations classification again]
From: Tomasz Wegrzanowski <maniek@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 18:48:40 +0200 
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 12:10:00PM -0500, Saikat DebRoy wrote:
> I think the safest course is to not to use the racial terms. Most of
> the colors (yellow black etc) were/are derogatory terms.

One more propasal :
race set will be : /* asciibeticaly sort, no discriminacy ;-) */
aboriginal, negroid, mongoloid, white

Rationale :
    white isn't generally considered offensive, and is 100% clear
    all others are very PC
    everything greps ideally well, no asia[n] africa[n] black[_sea] etc.
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