I think that a lot of the older generation do not even know that using the word 'coloured' is outdated. When I was growing up, if I called somebody black, I got such a telling off because it was only polite to use the word coloured. All these years have gone by and my elderly parents still think exactly the same. If they call somebody coloured, they think they are being polite rather than offending by calling them black. And I have told them what is acceptable these days and what isn't, but they will never change. They are not racist or ignorant, they are just elderly, so set in their ways and still try and go out of their way to be polite to everyone.