I don't think your last point is a significant lingual difference, it's a cultural difference. We have those words (you wrote them, just leave off the "person"

I don't think your last point is a significant lingual difference, it's a cultural difference. We have those words (you wrote them, just leave off the "person" part), they're just considered offensive to use that way. Which, in your example sentence, they really shouldn't be - it's just a convenient way of describing appearance. But, well, turns out the culture didn't go that way.