Guest, in the 19th century many people looked down upon the Irish people as inferiour. Does this make it racist when you label something as "Irish Folk"?

Any description of an group of people CAN be meant offensive of course, but this depends on the user. It also CAN get such a meaning if the general public understands it that way - but I don´t think this is the case with "world music", there are too many people who like it (otherwise we wouldn`t have this discussion).

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Ernest