Someday OP....
Someday you'll learn that some words have different meanings in different contexts...
this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2024
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Which reminds me, why don't more people refer to Elon Musk as an African American?
Oh, you.
Because that would imply that it's a human.
This whole borrowed/discovered outrage at normal terms from people who aren’t even the subject of the supposed slight (in combination with people who ARE the subject, and ARE NOT offended) is so tiresome.
I don't usually hear people referring generally to senior citizens in other countries though, and even if they did, wouldn't they still be senior citizens, just citizens of their respective country instead of America?
Definition 2 of Citizen from Merriam-Webster:
an inhabitant of a city or town especially : one entitled to the rights and privileges of a freeman
The term is used out of respect, not out of nationalism.