Let all the academics come up with terms no one will like. We use the term "local", as in, "he's a local", or "he's a local resident". That way, you don't label them with terms they may not like. No one likes being labeled. Maybe those good people see themselves as something more than a "rural resident".
I see the Left Progressives in America agonize over official terms to describe other people. The result is everyone that's getting labeled ends up hating the term and the person that is labeling them.
Let all the academics come up with terms no one will like. We use the term "local", as in, "he's a local", or "he's a local resident". That way, you don't label them with terms they may not like. No one likes being labeled. Maybe those good people see themselves as something more than a "rural resident".
I see the Left Progressives in America agonize over official terms to describe other people. The result is everyone that's getting labeled ends up hating the term and the person that is labeling them.
No individual likes labels -- it’s mostly the people in charge who do. Rust Belt, redneck, urban hukou, rural hukou, you name it.
You're right.