LOL, I had a Mexican roommate from Texas last year that moved up to go to community college in Michigan (really to be near his GF). He was looking for work and I suggest the nearby Chinese restaurant that was hiring. He said, "Don't they usually stay to their own kind?" I asked, "Who?" Then he said, "Orientals." I thought it very funny.
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those "ORIENTALS"
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LOL, I had a Mexican roommate from Texas last year that moved up to go to community college in Michigan (really to be near his GF). He was looking for work and I suggest the nearby Chinese restaurant that was hiring. He said, "Don't they usually stay to their own kind?" I asked, "Who?" Then he said, "Orientals." I thought it very funny.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=define%3Aoriental&btnG=Google+Search
a member of an Oriental race; the term is regarded as offensive by Asians (especially by Asian Americans)
Interesting. No it's not just for objects but I didn't know it was deemed offensive. If someone called me occident I'd be fine with it.
a member of an Oriental race; the term is regarded as offensive by Asians (especially by Asian Americans)
Interesting. No it's not just for objects but I didn't know it was deemed offensive. If someone called me occident I'd be fine with it.
No, all rugs are Persian...except when the rugs are people from Persia. Then they're Persians. Oh well, I guess Oriental is for Oriental food like Latin is for Latin food. Oh wait, those crazy Latinos are forming a big Latin group and are cooking the Latin food.
I suppose Oriental people are people from the Oriental part of Asia that aren't too racist to be associated with other people from a different part of Oriental Asia. It seems like black people are ok with being black but Oriental Asians are too worried about being associated with those damn Japanese or Chinese or Korean or Vietnamese or Thai or Taiwanese or Cambodians or any other Oriental group based on the obvious Oriental features. Can?t we all get along? Why is it OK to go to the Orient and describe someone as occidental but not ok to go to the Occident and describe someone as Oriental? Do Oriental Asians feel like they are better than the Persians or the Latinos? Why must the world be so crazy? Why can?t we all just get along?
ubercaffeinated
Platinum Member
if you can call blacks, "negros", then you can call me an oriental. names and labels are important. don't fvck with them.
ubercaffeinated
Platinum Member
the problem is not with the denotation of the words, but the connotation. you are trying to obliterate the histories associated with these words by reintroducing them into regular usage as being "okay" or neutral. these words are not neutral and are not "okay" to use glibly like you contend. sure you may not be a racist, but by trying to be some sort weird nonconformist, you are exhibiting a certain degree of crudeness, if not vulgarity. it hasn't gone "way too far". you don't go around referring to a restroom as "the shitter", do you? don't call me an oriental. the word is outmoded and has negative connotations.
oh and clue for you.
black people were negros. then they became african americans. today they are referred to simply as blacks. and we all know what they were called before negros. if it's so okay to call people whatever, why don't you go to any part of a large city that has a large predominance of blacks, and start calling them by... that one racial slur. i wonder if you will be so okay, then.
blah, blah, blah.
You are a victum of PC.
Black people are negros. Slit eyes are oriental. white people are caucy. Do they not honestly teach this today? Do they not honestly teach and understand why negroloid, mongoloids and caucasians came to be the way they were? Is that part of history just forgotten in the name of PC?
Anthropologist would roll over in the grave at the PC ignorance on race in this thread.
Stop the madness people. Just stop it. Equal but different is a GOOD thing.
BoomerD
No Lifer
Ornamentals...
Not sure why the PC crowd decided that oriental people should be called "Asians", but, since that part of Asia is known as the Orient...I'll consider Japanese, Korean, and Chinese people to be Orientals...as with Laotians, Cambodians, and...well, on good days, even Vietnamese...although that's NOT the wordI was taught for them during boot camp and after...
Not sure why the PC crowd decided that oriental people should be called "Asians", but, since that part of Asia is known as the Orient...I'll consider Japanese, Korean, and Chinese people to be Orientals...as with Laotians, Cambodians, and...well, on good days, even Vietnamese...although that's NOT the wordI was taught for them during boot camp and after...
Ricemarine
Lifer
Woo for Washington!... So happy I live here 🙂...
and yes, I find the word Oriental offensive.
Blazin Trav
Banned
Oriental? That wouldn't be offensive to you? It would if I was asian...
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