A New Word?!

2021-01-23T23:18:57+00:00January 23rd, 2021|

I thought I had seen it all—until today. I was looking at a customer form for a company online. They were genuinely concerned about pronouns to be used on government and private racial and ethnic form. There it was—MULTI-HYPHENATED person. Is this yet another new term for multiracial? The government is very concerned with appropriate language for different groups now, especially since President Joe Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris took office. Harris is Black and South Asian, and she prefers to identify as such, instead of biracial or multiracial. We [...]