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That makes more sense, actually. I haven't heard a person use the term "Oriental" for a group of people in several decades. Makes sense that it's from an old (a
by BrainLesion 9y ago
That makes more sense, actually. I haven't heard a person use the term "Oriental" for a group of people in several decades. Makes sense that it's from an old (and stupid) joke.
- teddyh 9y agohttps://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Five%20O%27s%20of%20Driving https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Five%20O%27s...
- kinkrtyavimoodh 9y ago"three Os" sounds better than "one A and two Os"...
- jackvalentine 9y agoI work in IT and my boss uses it with embarrassingly regular frequency... he is in his mid 50s.
- abritinthebay 9y agoMuch more common outside the US, where it's not seen as a slur at all. It's commonly used to differentiate the "Far East" (China, Japan, etc) from the rest of Asia (India, etc). It does technically mean "from the east", after all. But yeah, you'll see it everywhere in the U.K. for example