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Posted by Angus Manwaring on 04/20/07 19:45
On 20-Apr-07 04:43:55, Jonathan Brisby 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.
>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.
That being the case, can you not understand why a Sioux or Apache person
might feel the same way if they were referred to as "Indians"?
All the best,
Angus Manwaring. (for e-mail remove ANTISPEM)
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