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Who decided that we now call Orientals, Asians?

by lylesg Jul 1, 2007 9:35AM PDT

I was told the other day that I'm politically incorrect to use the word Oriental while referring to a human being from the Orient/Far East and that I should call them Asian. Who the hell decided that after several hundred years the word Oriental refers to rugs, art etc.... and not humans from that area? That's totally ridiculous!

When I use that word I do not intend any racial slur at all and I detest another insinuating that it's a slur/object. I'm sticking with Oriental.

I've not posted in SE for a long while, but I'm sure the place hasn't changed and will likely produce objective views on the matter.

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As I was going out the door?
by taboma Jul 10, 2007 11:17AM PDT

I will let you and Steven figure it out. I will not go there.
A little too delicate of a subject for me to address. LOL.
What the heck is it like in England these days addressing that issue?

-Kevin

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Good question
by Steven Haninger Jul 10, 2007 11:49AM PDT

I would think the word originated and grew up in the US but might have been exported to England. As you may have experienced with you brewery samplings, the export version is rarely identical to the product from the motherland. Happy

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Good Question?
by taboma Jul 10, 2007 3:11PM PDT

Steven, You are so right on. Tasted the EFES from Turkey. Not the same at all.
However the Lambic from Bussels was right-on according to my wife. I did not have a chance to sample any. My beer guzzling wife drank it all?

Don't you just hate it when that happens to you??

-Kevin

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(NT) Kipling's characters used it routinely.
by drpruner. Jul 11, 2007 6:36AM PDT
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Going out the door? You lost me there.
by drpruner. Jul 11, 2007 6:37AM PDT

Anyway, I said it that way to explain why I didn't post more info on the topic- I didn't have any. (Being on my way to class.)

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Going out the door?
by taboma Jul 11, 2007 8:41AM PDT

?good for you. I thought it may be a Brit thing that I was missing.

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