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Re: Political Correctness




>Date: Mon, 29 Dec 1997 16:54:40
>Sender: owner-medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
>From: "Jon M. Stewart" <xylorhiz@rt66.com>
>To: medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
>Subject: Political Correctness
>
> Hello all:
>
> I need some help, especially from those of you in South Africa.
>
> In my conservatory I have Clivia miniata, which I have called Kaffir Lily.
> To my knowledge this is an accepted common name. We had a visitor to the
> garden anonymously inform us that the word "kaffir" is equivalent to the
> word "nigger." Is this true? For those of you in other countries where the
> word is not considered offensive, how would you respond? I'm not aware of
> the word "kaffir" being derogatory in the States.
>
> For us this might be a mute point. They wrote their message on the label
> instead of talking to us about it, and I might have to replace it anyway.
> Are there other common names out there for this plant besides Clivia?

Hi,
I came from Indonesia and more than 80% of our 200millions people are
moslem.
I'm a christian but in our country 'kaffir' term use in moslem and
Christian.
'kaffir' was adapted to our national language ('Bahasa Indonesia') and to
our
moslem brothers it mean : "people/man who act against ALLAH (God)",
but in our Christian community term 'kaffir' mean : "man/people outside
Jews/Israel"
And for 'Kaffir Lily' we've local name 'Bakung' or we just called it
'Lily'.

Daniel S - Indonesia
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