I was speaking at a conference recently in Calgary, Canada, when a student from Montana posed this question to me at the end of my talk: “Dr. Merrill, you referred to ‘foreign students’ in your talk. That seems to me to be a put-down of these students. Shouldn’t you call them ‘international students’?”
The wrong verbiage can hurt feelings
Thursday, May 17, 2007 | 12:00 a.m. CDT;
updated 4:58 p.m. CDT, Sunday, July 20, 2008
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