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Is the term oriental offensive?
Posted on 5/11/16 at 12:43 pm
Posted on 5/11/16 at 12:43 pm
The reason I ask is because a law was passed yesterday to remove the term oriental from all laws and replace it with the term "Asian American".
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It's being dubbed the Meng Bill and she is an Asian in congress.
I have never heard or used the term oriental in a negative connotation. Is this really a thing?
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It's being dubbed the Meng Bill and she is an Asian in congress.
I have never heard or used the term oriental in a negative connotation. Is this really a thing?
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Posted on 5/11/16 at 12:47 pm to Prettyboy Floyd
Yep.....I don't understand why but it is. A few years ago my daughter brought her friend over and my wife said the word oriental and the friend was highly offended.....she was about 25 yrs old too.
Posted on 5/11/16 at 12:51 pm to Prettyboy Floyd
I can say that literally every word is offensive but it shouldn't make a shite what is and isn't. Grow the frick up and learn to deal with a little resistance. I hate all the xx-american bullshite when the person has never been to the country.
Posted on 5/11/16 at 12:53 pm to Prettyboy Floyd
one of my best friends is asian and she doesn't like it (so of course i have to use it on occasion). i don't know that i'd go as far as her being really offended by it though, she says oriental is for rugs.
Posted on 5/11/16 at 12:57 pm to piggilicious
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she says oriental is for rugs.
but Persian could also be used for rugs. Or Oriental express...etc.
Oriental just means from the East or far east I thought.
Tems like asian or spic etc have always been the anti Asian words I thought. I never realized oriental was negative.
Posted on 5/11/16 at 1:05 pm to Prettyboy Floyd
Interesting. What if in 50 years oriental's the most offensive word in our language. Our great grand children will talk about us like "he's not racist, he's just old. Oriental is just what they called them back then." Makes me think we've simply given the word (censored by OT mods, but it was the n word, you fricking know the one I'm talking about.) too much power. Maybe it really is just what our old folks called melanin people and we've just been making a bigger deal of it as time's gone on.
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Posted on 5/11/16 at 1:12 pm to Stacked
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What if in 50 years
Who cares??? I'll be dead by then so all of the oriental SJWs can suck my dead dick.
Posted on 5/11/16 at 1:19 pm to Prettyboy Floyd
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I never realized oriental was negative
neither did i until she and i became friends!
Posted on 5/11/16 at 1:55 pm to piggilicious
It has never occurred to me to use the term "Oriental". I've always just said "Asian". Or with my Asian friends, "Yellow Motherfricker".
Posted on 5/11/16 at 2:29 pm to Warfarer
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I hate all the xx-american bullshite when the person has never been to the country
Deal with it.
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Grow the frick up and learn to deal with a little resistance
Translation: "I wanna call you whatever the hell I want to call you and have the onus be upon you no matter the tenor of my speech."
Posted on 5/11/16 at 3:00 pm to Prettyboy Floyd
frick it..I'm gonna start writing in that I'm Irish-Scottish-Cherokee American.
This shite is beyond ridiculous.
This shite is beyond ridiculous.
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Posted on 5/11/16 at 3:27 pm to Prettyboy Floyd
i have never gotten why this one is offensive. The Orient is just a place meaning east or Asia.
i 100% get n****, black, spic, chink, chinaman, eurotrash, ruskie, towelhead, etc as all being offensive, but Oriental has never made sense as to why it's bad. i don't use it ever, just say asian.
i 100% get n****, black, spic, chink, chinaman, eurotrash, ruskie, towelhead, etc as all being offensive, but Oriental has never made sense as to why it's bad. i don't use it ever, just say asian.
Posted on 5/11/16 at 3:29 pm to TbirdSpur2010
I have a friend, who is black, who hates being called an African American. He always says "i'm just an American".
Posted on 5/11/16 at 3:30 pm to 3nOut
My Korean friend said it just dishonors his heritage. He's not offended by it, he'd just rather be labeled a Korean, not an Oriental.
Posted on 5/11/16 at 3:33 pm to The Spleen
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My Korean friend said it just dishonors his heritage. He's not offended by it, he'd just rather be labeled a Korean, not an Oriental.
fair enough. i guess it's just like hispanic. can mean 30 different nationalities.
Posted on 5/11/16 at 3:44 pm to cas4t
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I have a friend, who is black, who hates being called an African American. He always says "i'm just an American".
I don't really have a preferred term to be called between "black" and "African American." Either/or. In my personal speech I usually default to "black" just because it's easier to say.
"Texan-American" is my favorite nomenclature
Posted on 5/11/16 at 3:45 pm to Prettyboy Floyd
Why would you ever feel compelled to say oriental
Posted on 5/11/16 at 3:47 pm to TbirdSpur2010
I have a white friend from South Africa. He likes to label himself an African American just to see people's reactions. He has fun with it.
Posted on 5/11/16 at 3:49 pm to Carolina_Girl
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Irish-Scottish-Cherokee American.
That sounds like a very hot combo. How you doin'?
Posted on 5/11/16 at 4:03 pm to Prettyboy Floyd
It's just outdated. "Oriental" refers to things like rugs and vases, whereas people are "Asian". It's almost like "colored". In an of itself that's not a crazy offensive word, but it wouldn't be exactly kosher to call a black person "colored" to their face.
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