[@Dynamo Frokane]
Not really. My quote for such occurrences is "once you go black we don't want you back." I can't really stop people's relationships, and I can't blame people for liking our girls who are awfully pretty, but I'd just be somewhat dissappointed in a supposed Belarusian girl you would be dating for not really wanting to preserve what we are. Might be racist, I don't care. Our culture and language is already fading (for which I am admittedly guilty of too, I speak Russian and even English better than Belarusian) and I don't want to have us lost to time, to have the brown hair and green eyes gone. 

[quote]Clearly this isn't true as we now use gender slightly differently. You could easily demonstrate hundreds of words whose meanings have shifted subtly or drastically. Language changes, people can not want it to, but linguistics marches on![/quote]
But my point is that this isn't good. We do use things differently, but I would be wholly happy to use your definition if absolutely everyone including any all dictionaries would agree to it. 

[quote]Sure and it is possible you will convince me of your points. It hasn't happened yet but of course I am subject to the same instinctive defensiveness I just described. I'm not intentionally trying to mock your beliefs but not all ideas are equally worthy of respect. [/quote]
Anyone can say that and use it for the other side in an argument/debate/etc.etc.