[QUOTE=Derleth]
Keep in mind that whatever you do, someone will get offended. Ignore them and move on.
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Right- there are no “racial” terms that are not offensive to some people.
[QUOTE=even sven]
Each tribe/ethnic group has a name and generally prefers to be called that (though “pygmy” isn’t considered horribly offensive and some will self-identify as “pygmy”) In Southern Cameroon they called themselves the Baka people.
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Which is all very well unless the term’s applied to them by a Japanese-speaker. 
Ass haoles?