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Gregg Beaman's post on Words That We Are Not Allowed To Use reminds of an e-mail exchange I had with somebody at a leftie-think tank two years ago:

Me: Dear ...., I have just stumbled across your report ... Are you still allowed to say "mixed-race"? I thought you had to say "mixed ethnicity" (you use both terms).

To my amazement/amusement, I received the following response:

Dear Mark, ... thank you for pointing out my oversight on 'mixed-race' definition. Technically the Census collects data on what it calls "ethnic origin" and not race, and uses a "mixed" category rather than a mixed-race or mixed-ethnicity. I will bear that in mind in future work.