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Originally posted by DSTCHAOS
Ohhhhh---that's the difference? Please, people.
PWI, predominantly white institution, predominantly white university, predominantly white college---same thing.
The end result is the same with or without the requested examples--as I predicted it would be.
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Sure it's different. An acronym indicates that the phrase is
the typical phrase to describe such a phenomenon.
And like I said, we're discussing semantics here. We're reading into the potential/implied meaning of the words here. "Predominantly" seems to indicate that the institution which is predominantly white/black exists to serve the needs of a particular race.
Would you be offended if we were to drop the "HBCU" acronym and instead start referring to schools such as Howard as PBIs or "Predominantly Black Institutions"? I'm not sure that you would care either way, but what's your take on that?
PWI doesn't necessarily offend me. I'm really pretty indifferent. I don't tend to get bent out of shape about implied meanings unless they have some real effect. None exists here except that a few people I might call overly PC are happier. If they're happy and I get to remain indifferent, that's a win-win.