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I used to refer to an Indian dude Oriental and he corrected me. Now I call every Asian. But I jokingly substitute Oriental to Ornamental.
But I agree the government waste a lot of time on non essential stuff, not just this on racial stuff. The minute they ban these things, people have to spend time scrubbing documents refer to the old term, some even require reprinting. It's the same people who have no problem promoting global warming. They have no problem killing trees.
Why do righties consistently defend speech and actions that are blatantly offensive to people who aren't white, aren't Christian, aren't straight, and aren't male and then wonder why the people they so regularly insult/belittle/offend won't vote for the candidates and political parties righties support?
I was born in year 1985. My grandpa used the term oriental and he was a German-American.
I wouldn't say that it is a racist term but rather an old fashioned terminology that doesn't accurately portray the origin of the person.
words only have meaning if you give them.
A lot of the opprobrium associated with Chinese, then Japanese during World War II, etc. probably stuck tight to the word "oriental," so people naturally wanted to get their groups unstuck from that word.
It won't stop others to use that word behind closed doors. If they are hateful, ban that word wouldn't change a darn thing. I think it is a nice gesture, but it is silly.
Dividing into "Northeast Asian" (China, Mongolia, Korea, Japan), "Southeast Asian" (all the darker oriental looking people in that area) "South Asian" (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh) and "Central Asian" (all the rest in Asia aside from the Arabs and Persians) kind of works, although it's complicated.
Hell; IF we're gonna go there, time to toss in the Asian looking American Indians in there, too.
A lot of people use it to refer to other people, in this part of the US at least. I doubt they saw it as derogatory.
Probably the same people who still refer to blacks as colored or Negros These are the same folks who're clueless about why so many find the slavers flag insulting.
Far too many conservatives can't detect the difference between not being PC and being asshats...
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