Please remove my email address from your email list, and please ask the other folks to do the same. God Bless America! Thanks. -----Original Message----- From: Reinhold Schlieper [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 7:34 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: A Question of Usage - Reinhold Al-Saud is the clan name of the ruling family. I suggest not that all Saudis have problems with balancing religion and secular interests; I suggest that the ruling Sauds have such problems. I think Crown Prince Adbdullah's prime task has been to deal with the religious element in the country while King Fahad [Al-Saud] may come across as more the open-minded secular statesman--which is not a sexist term for Saudi Arabia <g>. ==Best, Reinhold Gretchen Lee wrote: > > In a message dated 9/17/2001 5:43:05 AM Pacific Daylight Time, > [log in to unmask] writes: > > << Sauds >> > > Reinhold, > > I have seen most references to people from Saudi Arabia as "Saudis," and many > references to people from Afghanistan as "Afghans." (I always thought that > Afghans were either blankets or hounds!) > > Do you know if there a preferred way of referencing these two groups- > Sauds/Saudis or Afghans/Afghanis? Or, is it just another tag we have hung on > an ethnic group? (I have such information overload that I can't face the > research!) > > Thanks, > Gretchen in San Jose > [log in to unmask] > > To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: > http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html > and select "Join or leave the list" > > Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/ To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html and select "Join or leave the list" Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/ To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html and select "Join or leave the list" Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/