Ethnic and Racial Euphemisms

[The research] shows a continuing pattern of “white flight” from areas where indigenous Britons find themselves surrounded by new minority communities.
© Daily Telegraph editorial

"Recognizing that race is a social construct, the Commission describes people as 'racialized person' or 'racialized group' instead of the more outdated and inaccurate terms 'racial minority,' 'visible minority,' 'person of colour' or 'non-White.' "
© The Ontario Human Rights Commission

“ People invent new words for emotionally charged referents, but soon the euphemism becomes tainted by association, and a new word must be found, which soon acquires its own connotations, and so on. [...] The euphemism treadmill shows that concepts, not words, are primary in people's minds.”
© Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate

Oriental Asian Asian-American and Pacific Islander
Colored Negro black African-American
Red Indians Native Americans CopperPerson

Race, or:
Stocks - proposed by Coon et al. (1950).
Divisions - proposed by UNESCO's "Statement on Race" (1950).
Major Groups - proposed by UNESCO's revised "Statement on Race" (1951).
Morphs - proposed by Lawrence Oschinsky (1954).
Genogroups - proposed by Julian Huxley in a private letter to Ashley Montagu in 1959.
Geographical Genogroups - proposed by Ashley Montagu in 1962.
Distinctive Populations - proposed by Ashley Montagu in 1964.
Poles - proposed by John Zachary Young (1971).
Clusters - proposed by Cavalli-Sforza, Menozzi, and Piazza (1994).
Forms - proposed by Goran Strkalj (2000).