Studies indicate having college roommate of a different race reduces prejudice

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“Midget,” whose etymology indicates a “small sandfly,”[22] came into prominence in the mid-1800s after Harriet Beecher Stowe used it in her novels Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands and Old Town Folks where she described children and an extremely short man, respectively.[23] Later, the word was deemed offensive because it was the descriptive term applied to P.T. Barnum’s dwarfs used for public amusement during the freak show era…</p>

<p>When depicted in art, literature, or movies, dwarfs are rarely depicted as “regular people who are very short” but often as a species apart. [2]

[Dwarfism</a> - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarfism]Dwarfism”>Dwarfism - Wikipedia)</p>

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…the word is laced with a history of objectification of people who were used as a visual gag because of a physical difference, and any use of the word is not acceptable.

<a href=“http://www.lpaonline.org/mc/page.do?sitePageId=85932&orgId=lpa[/url]”>http://www.lpaonline.org/mc/page.do?sitePageId=85932&orgId=lpa&lt;/a&gt; (from Letter to the Editor of the New York Times by the Director of Public Relations, Little People of America) </p>

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Little people are calling on the Federal Communications Commission to ban the use of the word “midget” on broadcast TV.</p>

<p>The group Little People of America said Sunday the word is just as offensive as racial slurs.

[Little</a> people call for FCC to ban ‘midget’ - NewsChannel 5.com - Nashville, Tennessee -](<a href=“http://www.newschannel5.com/Global/story.asp?S=10645701]Little”>http://www.newschannel5.com/Global/story.asp?S=10645701)</p>