Noam Chomsky once said: ‘A language is not just words. It’s a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It’s all embodied in a language.’
Over the past few years, the language of diversity has changed.
You may have noticed the changes; maybe you embraced the new terminology and found it easy to expand your vocabulary. Or perhaps you are wondering how to keep up with the ever-changing landscape.
We examined why people found understanding and using diversity words challenging, particularly when it came to words and black people. There were four reasons why people were cautious:
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