Complete.Org: Mailing Lists: Archives: freeciv-dev: August 2000:
[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Human races [was: Nations classification again] 		Home

[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Human races [was: Nations classification again]

[Top] [All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index] [Thread Index]
Cc: Freeciv Development Mailing List <freeciv-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] Re: Human races [was: Nations classification again]
From: Jake Kesinger <kesinger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 13:06:18 -0500 (CDT) 
On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
> 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.

Except that ``mongoloid,'' IIRC, is an older (1920s?) term for people with 
Down's Syndrome.  

  ==Jake
[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]