给一份杂志写专栏,谈的是关于非洲裔美国人如何为自己争取权益的问题。一位细心的读者发现,虽然我通篇一直用“非洲裔美国人”的称呼,但在文章的最后,还是不可避免地使用了“黑人”两个字,由此他感叹,虽然可以肯定我不是出自歧视,但这肯定来自我根深蒂固的印象和用词习惯。联想起最近看到的一个电视节目,主持人和台上的非洲朋友开玩笑:你怕不怕别人晚上看不 Write a column for a magazine on the issue of how African Americans fight for their rights. An attentive reader found that although I’ve been using “African-American” throughout, I still inevitably use the word “black” at the end of the article, While it is certain that I am not discriminating, it certainly comes from my deep-rooted impressions and usages. Think of a TV show recently seen, the host and the stage of the African friends joke: you are afraid of not afraid of others at night do not see