Benedict Cumberbatch OUTRAGE!!!
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Their name is usually best, if you know it.
That's no good if you want to specify a group of people based on their colour/ethnicity.
Though really Benedict Cumberbatch complaint is a bit "PC" given UK demographics compared to America's.
UK 87% White - USA 72.41%
UK 5% Black or Mixed Race - USA 21.72%
UK 7%(Just under) for Asian/Oriental. US 4.75%
So you'd have to complain about America if it wasn't. Going on numbers there should be at least 4 times as much opportunity in America just to be on the same level.
Until someone compiles accurate statistics on ethnic diversity in the entertainment industry and then compares that directly to the population we don't know if there is a problem and if there is how bad it is.
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Oriental, just to throw some thing else into the debacle, is used to refer to objects not a person/persons... so is a racist term in the US.
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Oriental, just to throw some thing else into the debacle, is used to refer to objects not a person/persons... so is a racist term in the US.
Sounds about right...so someone from the Orient is...fareastern-American?
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Nope in America they are Asian or Asian American
Oriental, just to throw some thing else into the debacle, is used to refer to objects not a person/persons... so is a racist term in the US.
Chinese and Japanese actually prefer to be called Oriental because as a race they're so far apart from people of the middle-east and they don't like being lumped into the same race
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Not from experience, 'Asian American' and UK Chinese/Japanese/Korean friends of mine dislike the term Oriental as it was used as a derogatory term and is akin to calling a person with dark skin of possible african origin a N****
They actually prefer to be called Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Taiwanese, etc not be labled as Asian or Oriental
They actually prefer to be called Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Taiwanese, etc not be labled as Asian or Oriental
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My wife who is also Taiwanese thinks its funny when I point out yellow objects
'They prefer' was only in reference to friends not as a general term
'They prefer' was only in reference to friends not as a general term
My boss is black and he is the most racist person you could ever meet.
I told him about the cuberbatch story and he said who gives a **** it's only the White media trying to spin nonsense.
Also I asked him what I should call him, black or coloured and he said you can call me sir.
I told him about the cuberbatch story and he said who gives a **** it's only the White media trying to spin nonsense.
Also I asked him what I should call him, black or coloured and he said you can call me sir.
They actually prefer to be called Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Taiwanese, etc not be labled as Asian or Oriental
My GF is chinese and had never heard "yellow" being used before, and thinks the Asian or oriental label is completely fine if you don't know they are chinese, korean or whatever.
My wife who is also Taiwanese thinks its funny when I point out yellow objects
'They prefer' was only in reference to friends not as a general term
Fair enough
Just had a discussion with her about this (always a sensible thing to do at 4:30am), and she has no issue with whatever labels people use, it's entirely about intent. She'd never be offended by someone using a colour as a description, figures it's fair enough. As long as nobody says she's from the mainland!I still get a little frustrated by the reverse racism here, though it's rarely malicious - give the foreign guy different food because white people don't like this stuff, etc. Though that can also work in my favour with police not wanting the hassle of dealing with a foreigner
This feels like it's getting a little off topic
Not from experience, 'Asian American' and UK Chinese/Japanese/Korean friends of mine dislike the term Oriental as it was used as a derogatory term and is akin to calling a person with dark skin of possible african origin a N****
They actually prefer to be called Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Taiwanese, etc not be labled as Asian or Oriental
Your talking about people people who were born in this country, which is fair enough, i was talking about people actually born and raised in their countries. They diffidently don't like being called Asian as they hate being called the same race as people from the middle-east.
But you're right that there highest preference is being called from the country of origin, but then again if you don't know and they're not there to ask how would you describe their appearance to someone else? You can't say Asian as that covers two entirely different races. Far-eastern?
comes from ww2 American propaganda posters about the Japanese
calling people who live in Asia Asians is no different to calling people from Europe Europeans
I bet Chinese people hate being grouped with the Japanese though
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Yeah, yellow is horrible and up there with the N word for black people in my opinion.
You think?
I'm constantly shocked by just how much the Chinese seem to hate Japan. Last night my GF told a story of a popular Chinese TV actor once wore a Japanese brand of clothes, which had a very small Japanese flag at the bottom in one corner. This got noticed, and he was forced to issue a public apology, got dropped by his network, and a member of the public threw a bucket of **** on him.
Well if you heard the stories of how sadistic the Japanese were with the Chinese during WW2 it's understandable. But i do think it's time the Chinese got over it as virtually everyone who fought in the war is dead now and the Japanese people is almost entirely different to those from the 40's
Intent doesn't matter to feminazis, you merely have to use a non PC word and they get offended.
Something to do with 'limiting a social space for people of colour'
I'm not ****ing you, that is exactly how they talk and think, they are like a cancer in society.