The first two would depend on what's going on. If it's a comedy, and blacks are precluded from appearing in film... Well, it'd be borderline. And it seems like the recent use of making men up like women is to make fun of transvestites and MtFs.
Ethnic people sound like what KKK members might call the Irish. Negro is just an archaic term, and has been coloured (err) with bad connotations in some people's view. I'm surprised that the variant word wasn't listed - some people like to use it as a pet word for their peers, but won't allow others to use that word. Self-denigration coupled with racism, in my opinion.
And yeah, I, too, have noticed that Amerinds/Native Americans prefer to use the word Indian instead. So do Indians. Which makes it confusing. And you can't use West Indian, you'd be talking about Jamaicans and Haitians.
Growing up in my melting-pot family, using the word Negro was okay, and I don't think that it has devolved into an archaism quite yet, but the other "N" word that ended in an "r" was, and still is considered extremely taboo, and something that didn't come out of the mouths of anybody who was intelligent.
In my high school years, I got along pretty well with blacks (as a strongly bi-cultural asiatic/white boy, the white kids tended to patronize and pick on me), but I resented the fact they could use N****r as a term of endearment for each other but I wasn't allowed to use it myself (I mean, hey, I liked them - the black captains always picked me first for PE basketball - I always passed to someone who could shoot). Actually, I didn't resent it then like I do now, back then, it completely bewildered me. For that matter, my godfather would never let anyone in his family refer to themselves as "African-Americans", only as blacks or Americans. He noted that their Costa-Rican relatives were black, but certainly not American (or planning on sailing back to Africa).
Hurt my family like hell when most of his relatives cold-shouldered them at his funeral.
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Ethnic people sound like what KKK members might call the Irish. Negro is just an archaic term, and has been coloured (err) with bad connotations in some people's view. I'm surprised that the variant word wasn't listed - some people like to use it as a pet word for their peers, but won't allow others to use that word. Self-denigration coupled with racism, in my opinion.
And yeah, I, too, have noticed that Amerinds/Native Americans prefer to use the word Indian instead. So do Indians. Which makes it confusing. And you can't use West Indian, you'd be talking about Jamaicans and Haitians.
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Hurt my family like hell when most of his relatives cold-shouldered them at his funeral.