Thank you, suthdj 'ol buddy.suthdj wrote:as a side note http://www.answers.com/topic/oriental Now if you ask an Asian they don't seem to care.Oldgringo wrote:Today was semi-annual Dr. day in Tyler:
We saw a Dermatologist who couldn't wait to tell us about his new CHL and handguns, an Oriental Opthomologist who couldn't care less about guns and my Orthopedic surgeon who asked about our summer in Montana and said my knee was doing fine.
None of these medical facilities were 30.06 posted; however, it appeared, in passing from the highway, that there was a big new sign in the Jacksonville Goodwill store window.
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n. often Oriental Often Offensive. An Asian. orientally o'ri·en'tal·ly adv. USAGE NOTE Asian is now strongly preferred in place of Oriental for persons native to Asia or descended from an Asian people. The usual objection to Oriental-meaning "eastern"-is that it identifies Asian countries and peoples in terms of their location relative to Europe. However, this objection is not generally made of other Eurocentric terms such as Near and Middle Eastern. The real problem with Oriental is more likely its connotations stemming from an earlier era when Europeans viewed the regions east of the Mediterranean as exotic lands full of romance and intrigue, the home of despotic empires and inscrutable customs. At the least these associations can give Oriental a dated feel, and as a noun in contemporary contexts (as in the first Oriental to be elected from the district) it is now widely taken to be offensive. However, Oriental should not be thought of as an ethnic slur to be avoided in all situations. As with Asiatic, its use other than as an ethnonym, in phrases such as Oriental cuisine or Oriental medicine, is not usually considered objectionable. Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/oriental#ixzz2hqM1IjYt
Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. Please bear with me, I'm a kinda' old honky who is tryin' to come up to speed with today's version of "Political Correctness".
