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Old 09-03-2017, 08:26 AM   #9 (permalink)
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I was on a trivia quiz website a while back and made reference in one of my quizzes to an "oriental gentleman". I was told that term was racist. Really? How could "gentleman" be racist? Seriously: oriental used to describe someone from the Far East/Asia, which was known as The Orient, so how could calling someone oriental be racist? Might as well say it's racist to call me a Hibernian, or a native of Maynmar a Burmese.
Times have changed. You only call things oriental but not the people from that area. Just stick to Asian if you don't know the country they are from.
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