完全英语生活手册社交篇：你可以用英文说你的“政治理念”吗？
is your english politically correct
你可以用英文说你的“政治理念”吗？
as we progress in the 21st century, more and more everyday english terms are considered of-fensive. are you worried that you might unwittingly offend your friends or colleagues by saying the wrong thing? here's some advice to help you choose your words wisely and survive in a sensitive and politically correct world.
当我们随著21世纪进步时，某些英语术语越来越被认为是一种冒犯。你担心你可能不知不觉地说错话冒犯你的朋友还或是同事吗？这里有一些建议可以帮助你明智选择所说的话并且生存在一个敏感且政治立场的世界。
what's he／she like?他/她是什么样子
there was a time when you could say a person was old, short, fat,or blind - easy to say, but truly insensitive!
当你说某个人："old”、”short”、 “fat”或"blind "，很容易说出口，但是真的让人感觉很没技巧！
the next time you want to describe someone, think carefully and be creativel people aren't old anymore - they'reelderly. someone short has become vertically challenged. a person once fat is now obese o r horizontally giftedadditionally, visually impaired i5 now the most respected term for saying someone is blind. just remember thatname-calling,m whatever form. is always insensitive and insulting
等下次你想要描述某人时，仔细想想并具有创意点！人们就不再老了一他们是“elderly”。某些人比较矮那已经变得是"vertically challenged9。肥胖的人现在会被称为”obese”或”horizontally gifted”。另外"visually impaired”现在是最能对瞎子表示尊重的术语。 请记得，无论以任何形式直呼其名，总是会让人感觉没有礼貌且侮辱的。
what‘s his／her rare?什么年代他/她的罕见
north america once was home to blacks, whites, indians and orientals. have they all disappeared? of course not!these days, however, there are more politically correct ways to refer to a person's ethnicity. blacks are now calledafrican-americans／canadians. whites arecaucasians. indians are referred to as native americans, and orientals havebeen replaced with asians
北美曾经是、、blacks（黑人）”、 ”whites（白人）””indians（印第安人）”和”orientals（Ⅱ洲人）”的家园，他们全部都消失了吗？当然不是i随着时间流逝，有了更正确的政治理念来划分一个人的种族。黑人现在被称为”african-americans/canadians"：白人被称为”caucasians”：印地安人被称为”native americans”，并且东方人已经被”asians”取代了。
what does he/she do?他/她是做什么的
men and women once had different titles for the same job. not anymore! referring to a certain gender is nowconsidered sexist, so instead of man o r woman, the word person i5 used ln job titles. for example, we use chairperson as opposed to chairman, businessperson instead of businessman, and salesperson in place of salesman
男人和女人曾经有相同的工作但职位是不一样的。现在不再是这样了-有性别倾向的想法就会被认为是歧视女性的人所以'person”这个字被使用在一个职位上用来取代”man”或"woman”例如。我们使”chairperson”而不是”chairman”：、、businessperson”取代了、、businessman”；而"salesperson 9则取代了”salesman 9。
other jobs have a whole new namel where have all the air hostesses and stewardesses gone? they have been replaced with flight attendants. and waitresses and waiters are now called either servers o r waitrons
其他工作也有了新称呼！所有的”air hostesses“ ”stewardesses”都到哪里去了？他们已经被”filghtattendants”取代了。并且”waitresses”和"waiters”现在也被称为”servers-或是”waitrons"。
what about those jobs that don't sound very prestigious? don't worry!lf you are a janitor, you can call yourself asanitation engineer. housewives are now domestic engineers. and if you don't have a job, you're not unemployedanymore, you're actually just involuntarily leisured！
对于那些听起来非常没有前途的工作呢？不要担心r如果你是一位"janitor（保安），你自己会说你自己是一位"sanitation engineer"："housewives”在现在是一位”domestic engineers”。如果你没有一份工作，你将再也不是 unemployed”，你实际上只是一个”involu ntarily leisu red”！