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Originally Posted by ilbegone

Politically correct or not, one should at least strive for accuracy in a term and use it accurately, whatever term is used as a description - such as "Anchor Baby" or "Mexican".

However, I heard a new one the other day, "Muslim-American". What the hell does that mean? It doesn't make sense, try "Christian-American", Agnostic-American, Atheist-American, Catholic-American, Jewish-American, Zen Buddhist-American", Heathen-American, Pagan-American, Animist-American, Zoroastrian-American, Satanist-American, Hard Shell Baptist-American, Holy Roller American, Casting Out Serpents-American, and so on.

It's so vague as to be meaningless. It was the basis of an article in the Press Enterprise or SB Sun, I believe a week or so ago. Something about alleged persecution or similar.

Those terms are meaningless because they combine religion with nationality, and the two elements have nothing to do with each other. The politically term which has never made sense to me is "Asian", which replaced "Oriental", which someone decided is now politically incorrect. "Oriental" was a more accurate term in my opinion because it referred to people from the Far East, whereas "Asian" theoretically could be someone from any part of Asia, which includes India, the Middle East, and most of Russia. However, no one refers to people from those regions as "Asians", as it's only used to refer to people from the Far East.