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Posted by 5605 on 04/20/07 18:20
On 2007-04-20 05:43:55 +0100, Jonathan Brisby <underthe@rosebush.com> said:
> I miss the days when people from China and Japan were called Orientals
> and not Asians... a great deal, and probably more than half, of
> Americans don't know that Asia covers many many counties and not just
> those with the common physical features of the Chinese, Japanese,
> Korean, Vietnamese... ect. Of course those were also the days where we
> had American Indians and just Indians and when someone would say
> Indian I'd have to ask them which kind.
Oriental has become regarded as a racist slur - though why I have no
idea. My Chinese friends detest the word, so I don't use it.
>
> All this politically correctness here is pissing me off. And since
> when did every person with dark brown skin become African American?
> Did Jamaica and Haiti fall off the map? Personally if I were from
> Haiti and someone called me an African American I'd be insulted.
Haitians and Jamaicans have never been called African Americans AFAIK.
They are Caribbeans.
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