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Obama approuve le retrait de mots offensants dans les lois américaines

Des termes offensants retirés des lois américaines
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Les lois fédérales américaines ne comporteront plus de termes désuets et offensants utilisés autrefois pour désigner les minorités.

Le président Barack Obama a signé un projet de loi proposant de supprimer plusieurs de ces mots, dont "Nègre" et "Oriental", vendredi, a indiqué la Maison-Blanche.

Ces deux expressions seront remplacées par "Afro-Américain" et "Asio-Américain".

Le projet de loi a été adopté en février par la Chambre des représentants et la semaine dernière par le Sénat. Aucun représentant ou sénateur ne s'y est opposé.

Les termes visés par la législation apparaissent dans des lois des années 1970 tentant de décrire les minorités.

Dans la Loi sur l'organisation du département de l'Énergie, la phrase "un Nègre, un Portoricain, un Indien d'Amérique, un Esquimau, un Oriental ou un Aléoute ou un hispanophone d'origine espagnole" sera remplacée par "Asio-Américain, natif d'Hawaï, natif des îles Pacifiques, Afro-Américain, Hispanique, Portoricain, Amérindien ou natif d'Alaska".

Les mêmes mots seront aussi remplacés dans la Loi sur le développement et les investissements dans les travaux publics locaux, qui remonte à 1976.

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