<i>yet that is ALWAYS how it seems to be taken</i><p>This is a clue that perhaps your terminology is loaded, inflammatory, and should be changed.<p>I find that there&#x27;s very little value in reasoning about race as a collective, since it&#x27;s usually just a (overly) reductive variable for socioeconomic status, upbringing, or environment. If you mean those things, say those things. Attaching a racial modifier to a term and then expecting members of that race to not feel described or targeted by it makes no sense.<p>(And that goes double when that term <i>is</i> used, <i>often</i>, <i>as an attack</i>, not in the thoughtful way you describe, but that is a rant for another time.)