<p>@BlackBeltDuckie: Who are you to decide what may be considered offensive to a certain race? I hate to go on a tangent here and completely disregard what this thread is addressing, but apparently people like you would rather talk about certain ethnicties and how to distinguish them. I’m sure it wasn’t the original poster’s intent to slander a certain race of people by calling a group of people “brown,” but you had to take that entirely out of context and declare that term as offensive. I’m not sensitive to this kind of stuff, but I can’t stand the people that take it upon themselves to assess the discriminatory nature of a particular word. It seems that in this day and age, any word addressing race is inappropriate–‘white,’ ‘black,’ and ‘brown’ are “offensive.” Keep the values you believe in regarding race to yourselves and stop projecting what is right and wrong, once someone is actually personally offended by what someone calls them can you think about interjecting.</p>