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Can somebody help me understand why "Oriental" is considered so offensive? It seems about as offensive to me as calling Europe, etc. "the West". Perhaps it's ju
by pc2g4d 10y ago
Can somebody help me understand why "Oriental" is considered so offensive? It seems about as offensive to me as calling Europe, etc. "the West". Perhaps it's just guilty by association with colonialism and outmoded racial attitudes?
- undersuit 10y agoIsn't it kinda offensive to lump every east Asian group together? OK, maybe it's not offensive. Isn't it odd that US laws target Orientals? What is an Oriental? Are sub-continental Indians oriental, are Australian aboriginals, do we care about natives of eastern Russia?
- dragonwriter 10y ago> Perhaps it's just guilty by association with colonialism and outmoded racial attitudes? That's the main reason "Negro" (which was, for a time, favored, even among the population the label was used for) and "Indian" are considered offensive in many uses today by the groups they have been used to refer to ("Indian" has some additional issues.)