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I have a Chinese friend, he doesn't care what I call him
Thats because the words of a round-eye aren't to be taken seriously!
Is 'oriental' racist?
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Thats because the words of a round-eye aren't to be taken seriously!
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Ask him what Kamikaze means. When he says 'divine wind', tell him 'no, it means there's a nasty nip in the air'.
You don't think the many years of use as a racial slur (normally preceeded with a swear word) to describe anyone of west asian appearance regardless of what country they actually come from has something to do with it?
It's crazy what you can and can't say nowadays. Sometimes it seems like identifying people based on their ethnicity is totally unacceptable, but it's a fact of life. I'm white, I don't care that when I go places abroad where there are very few white people that people may identify me by that, it seems normal to me. When I would have a problem is if they were saying that my appearance somehow makes me a **** or inferior as a human being, because it counts for diddly squat, and I feel the same way about people of other ethnicities.
Well, we call them 'Frogs' from the fact that they eat frogs' legs, so I guess 'Rosbifs' makes sense
I'd be interested to know more anti-white terms - all I know if 'honkey' and 'white trash'.
Asian now seems to mean middle eastern rather than far eastern.
I've seen several Chinese restaurants called oriental something or the other (e.g. Oriental Aroma). So it seems a bit odd that it would be considered racist. I've always taken it to mean something or someone from the East (the Orient). But then the p word and the n word were used to describe people from Pakistan and Nigeria respectively so anything can be made racist.
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Yeah! You never seen Avenue Q?
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We call our oriental friend chink/yellow/everything else and he doesn't care. He calls others this too. At the end of the day it's only offensive if the person thinks it is/deems it to be.
Really? Never heard of that, just googled it, oh and found a link to some more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_names_for_the_British
Only to us Brits where we see a lot more people from that part of the world.
Go to the states and asian means far eastern.
I don't think people should find it offensive, but different people are offended easier than others.
A friend in school was more than happy for us to use what others would describe as casual racism (he was african decent), but there was no way that other people in our year would be happy to be called such things.