Using the word British is as offensive as calling someone a negro or a spastic, a former minister has declared.
The term should be banned as it offends people from Scotland, Wales and Ireland, according to disgraced ex-Welsh secretary Ron Davies.

Ethnic minorities should be referred to using terms such as Chinese British or British Asians.
The guidelines are contained in a leaflet compiled by the Welsh Valleys Race Equality Council, which Mr Davies heads.

The leaflet was handed to 9,000 workers in Caerphilly, south Wales, and warns that 'the idea of British implies a false sense of unity'.

Personally, being of Welsh descent on my fathers side and Scottish descent on my mother's side I couldn't give a fig what I'm called.
But I have never been able to understand why the Scots go mad when you refer to them as Scotch. I do realise it is a drink, but it can only be called Scotch if it comes from Scotland, otherwise its called Whiskey.
Is it alright to call the drunks under the cash machines in Charing Cross Road Scotch? there full of drink. Mind you its normally special brew not whiskey.
Perhaps some of the cabbies from up over the boarder can enlighten me.

What's a 'boarder'?

I do have a sense of humour

So I noticed with your dancing style Clive.

I dont want to shatter your illusion but I was never on screen in the video I just take the pictures!
I havn't got the looks for films.

I dont want to shatter your illusion but I was never on screen in the video I just take the pictures!
I havn't got the looks for films.

I think that's what's bothering you, I know everything about you, and you know jack about me.

Do you realy think I would like to take up my time looking for stuff about you?

Your the stalker thats what you do.

Oh one of many guises why are you hiding on the Scottish section

I don't care if people call me Scotch. I just wouldn't respond to it, unless it was a blatant attempt at humour of course.

"Fancy a British Chinese tonight my dear?

I'm away down to the British Asian's, do you want anything while I'm there?

"Although Mr Gupta in the corner shop is a British Indian, his father is a Ugandan Indian, his brother is a domiciled Canadian Indian while his sister, who is at university in Mumbai, remains an Indian Indian."

"Fort Apache is a film about non-native Americans waging war against Native Americans"

"Uluru is a place of spiritual significance to Indigenous Australians"

Doesn't have the same ring to it does it?

My uncle who lives in England was always known as Jock. How could he take offence at that? Or anyone called Taffy? Or Mick? Aren't they all terms of endearment?

When I used to use the term "chinky", it was a reference to a fast food type, not the person owning or serving in the takeaway.

Same with the word "[edited by admin]". This wasn't intended as any slight on any individual, just a term that became a reference for a retail outlet. Now, I understand that a Bangladeshi may not want to be associated as a Pakistani, but that has everything to do with any age old friction between the two nations, rather than any intended slight by the utterer.

Anyway, because of sensitivity to these people I desist from using the terms now, but it really is PC gone mad.

Same with the Gaelic language. It is the language of the Gaels. But the scottish clique dont say "Gaylic", the say "Gaalic". Why? because they want to encourage their own identity as different?

Yet, I would consider "Gaalic" as referring to matters French. So what are the Scottish Gaels on? Difference for difference sake? An Identity crisis?

One word can have many connotations. That may not be perfect. But it is the way it is.

Take the C... word as an example.

It can mean anything from female genitalia, making a mess of something, acting like a disreputable person - saf for instance, or even, as is widely used everyday, a term of endearment - Aye, see him, he's good c...

You can't give offence, you can only take it. And, in modern PC Britain today, aren't we all too ready to take offence.