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> the chinese This terminology makes you sound antiquated and prejudiced, FWIW.
by rafram 3y ago
> the chinese
This terminology makes you sound antiquated and prejudiced, FWIW.
- hashtag-til 3y agoIt’s a nationality last time I checked.
- olddustytrail 3y agoSure, in a "Didn't the Americans claim they'd have self driving cars by now? One has to take their claims with a pinch of salt" sense. Attributing particular people's claims to an entire country doesn't really make sense for the most part.
- seanmcdirmid 3y agoThat would be something completely reasonable to hear in China. Your point? In countries far far away, people tend to abstract entities involved (the Americans did X, not Tesla did X).
- olddustytrail 3y agoMy point is that that would be completely reasonable to hear in China, but would sound strange to an American. Likewise, contrariwise.
- seanmcdirmid 3y agoYa. It’s normal. In fact, I’m pretty sure linguists have studied this phenomena, but I can’t remember the name for it.
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- IAmGraydon 3y agoWhat would you have him call people from China?
- foota 3y agoI think the point is that all Chinese research groups aren't alibaba, and they shouldn't all be lumped in together.
- acheron 3y agoNot the preferred nomenclature?
- naniwaduni 3y agoWill nobody think of those poor people of Frenchness!
- junofan 3y agoI like how we stopped using Chinaman (like Frenchman and Englishman) to dehumanize them. The Geary Act of 1892 refers to “Chinese person or person of Chinese descent.” Now it’s in fashion again.
- sshine 3y ago"Chinaman" strikes me as a term that's only offensive to non-Chinese. Although 中国人 Zhōng guó rén = China person, Chinaman is close to literal. The whole "person" instead of "man" is also a Western fad, since 他/她 tā = he/she is naturally ambiguous spoken, and 人 rén = person/people occurs naturally when gender is less relevant.