The article "On Political Correctness in American Society» aims at highlighting several issues of Political Correctness, which will help to enhance English teachers’ awareness, and provide some information to be shared with students. Teachers of English will be able to explain their students how language is changing, and give tem guidance on how to use various terms appropriately. In the last decade Political Correctness has become an important topic in American intellectual life. PC debate has spread into newsrooms, movie studios, and even the halls of Congress Critics, mainly on the right, claim that only the "correct" views on these and other sensitive issues can be expressed without evoking extreme, stifling reactions from activists seeking to make their opinions into an enforced orthodoxy. Some of the following questions will be discussed in the article: What is Political Correctness? Which is its impact on Modern American Society? Are speakers treated respectfully regardless of the popularity of their views? Are some opinions given privileged access to the media? Are people sincere in their arguments? Who can talk about what topics, and when, without violating some unspoken canon of decency? Do advocates of one position seek to prevent, or discredit, the expression of opposing ideas? Do some arguments so offend the sensibilities of some citizens that they should be preemptively excluded from public debate?, etc.