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[[Arab people]] a better title? [[User:John Stephenson|John Stephenson]] 11:59, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
[[Arab people]] a better title? [[User:John Stephenson|John Stephenson]] 11:59, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
:Maybe.  Or possibly [[Arabic people]]. There are a lot of ethnic names (like "Kurd" or "Mongol" or "Sami" or "Inuit"), names for nationalities (like "America" or "Mexican" or "Greek" or "Russian"), religious names ("Hindu" or "Catholic" or "Muslim") that are used as both adjectives and nouns.  My sense is that using such names as nouns is sometimes taken to be offensive.  That's not always the case, though, as should be obvious from my lists.  "Arab" is used a lot in the U.S. news, but I don't know enough if there are any connotations associated with the term for the people to whom it is applied.  Unless there are such connotations, this is probably going to be an issue of standardization for the social science workgroups. --[[User:Joe Quick|Joe Quick]] 15:30, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

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I'm not sure whether to redlink 'Arabia' or 'Arabian Peninsula'. Ro Thorpe 04:59, 15 January 2008 (CST)

Arab people a better title? John Stephenson 11:59, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

Maybe. Or possibly Arabic people. There are a lot of ethnic names (like "Kurd" or "Mongol" or "Sami" or "Inuit"), names for nationalities (like "America" or "Mexican" or "Greek" or "Russian"), religious names ("Hindu" or "Catholic" or "Muslim") that are used as both adjectives and nouns. My sense is that using such names as nouns is sometimes taken to be offensive. That's not always the case, though, as should be obvious from my lists. "Arab" is used a lot in the U.S. news, but I don't know enough if there are any connotations associated with the term for the people to whom it is applied. Unless there are such connotations, this is probably going to be an issue of standardization for the social science workgroups. --Joe Quick 15:30, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
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