Obama signed a law banning insults to national minorities.
The US President signed the law, which should replace the law of appeal to mansinam considered abusive, such as “Negro” or “Oriental”.
The United States is the law, according to which in the Federal documents should disappear terms like “Negro” or “Oriental” (comes from Asia). This is stated in the message of Central American TV channel ABC News.
“President Obama has signed a law that should replace the Federal legislation appeal to mansinam considered abusive, such as “Oriental” and “Negro”, – stated in the publication.
A document whose author has become a Congresswoman from the Democratic party, a lawyer by training, grace Meng, is positioned as an effort at “modernization of terms used in relation to mansinam”. In particular, it replaces the well-established terms that are spelled out in the law on the protection of health from the late 1970s and are now considered politically incorrect.
“The term “Oriental” should not have place in Federal law and, in the end, it’s offensive and outdated definition of irretrievably gone in the past,” said Meng in a statement on the matter.
“There’s no more law in the United States, with regard to Asian Americans in such an insulting manner, and I congratulate and thank President Obama for signing my law”, – quotes the channel of Meng.
