Bright Angel Trail ( A portion..that is)

Canyon Dweller · Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 712 Location: Denver, CO

did not realize it was derogatory to call them Japs. It's just easier than spelling out Japanese. I have never heard of a Nipponese before.
I'm the type of person that if I'm in an unformiliar place I'll leave the group anyway. If I want to see something, I dont care if my group is the only english speaking people, I'll go and see something if I want to.
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Kristyn · Posted: 1/10/2003, 10:24 am Post subject:

I knew some would take that to heart but I don't think Steven meant it in a prejudice way. It is shorter than calling them Japanese, but what is wrong with classifying one group of people as Japanese, they are, aren't they? Of course it isn't my board and isn't my right to say whether or not we should be "politically" correct.

What is this world coming to when you can't describe people as the race that they are? Of course I do understand where you all are coming from, in today's world we just have to be careful what we say...
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Canyon Dweller · Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 712 Location: Denver, CO

I feel that politacally correctness has gone way too far. The fact is these people are still Japanese. Anyway this disscusion has gotten way off topic...
So how bout the Grand Canyon?
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Mountains are there to be climbed!

"Meaningless! Meaningless," says the teacher, "Utterly Meaningless, Everything is meaningless."-Ecclesiastes 1:2

GTG · Posted: 1/10/2003, 12:37 pm Post subject: sorry

Sorry, Canyon Dweller, I didn't mean to stir up the bees with a hornet's nest. It just sounded bad to me last night.

You're right, back to the Canyon.

GTG
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Canyon Dweller · Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 712 Location: Denver, CO

Thats ok GTG, I know better for next time. Smile

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Mountains are there to be climbed!

"Meaningless! Meaningless," says the teacher, "Utterly Meaningless, Everything is meaningless."-Ecclesiastes 1:2

plummer150 · Posted: 1/15/2003, 9:28 am Post subject: Grand Canyon N.P.

Wow! This National Park is truely one of the most spectacular places i've been to ever. It comes close, if not surpassing the beauty and astonishing sites as does Rocky Mountian N.P. I hope to make it up to the park within the year to go the whole way down to bottom. We took a 4 hour loop trail that really wasn't that hard but with amazing views at the same time. I wanted to go to the bottom so but we really didn't have the time and we also had a huge hike on our hands the next day in Tucson so we didn't want to over work ourselves with this hike.