I feel like this is a trick question.
Well, I'm very confused on "Oriental".
"President Obama recently signed a bill prohibiting use of the term in all federal documents." This was written in 2016, about the same time I so gracefully ate my foot. Explains a lot.
- Wiki is always right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orient. Nothing there about it being derogatory.
- Light shedding editorial: http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-tsuchiyama-oriental-insult-20160601-snap-story.html .
This explains why my Asian Canadian friends (not to be confused with my South Asian Canadian friends, like Gurps, otherwise known as "Brown Guys", or, "Dude's Extended Family") don't seem to give a flying fcuk about being referred to as Oriental. Apparently the Americans found a problem with it without first discussing it with the rest of the world's orie...erm, asians.
Mrs. Dude, for the record, takes exception to "South Asian", but allows "Micronesian", "Brown Lady", "Hawaiian Barbi" (she's not even Hawaiian), or "Fijian Princess" (thanks, Regs). She'll accept Fijian Canadian, but prefers Canadian above all else.
Also, I don't need a derogatory term to insult people, I am perfectly capable of calling them a cnut without having to resort to deliberate derogatory terms. For example: "@knvb is a cnut" has been popular for years.
You know you are old when political incorrectness comes so bloody easy.
I was at a sales meeting down south, chatting with one of the young lady engineers I deal with a lot. A few bevies had been consumed. She's about 30, I think her family originates from Korea, though she's second generation American. I made the mistake of pointing out she's of oriental ancestry. Well, that did not go over well.
"You can't say that."
"What, Oriental? But you are Oriental, just like I'm Caucasian, what's wrong with oriental?"
"Ummm...we say Asian. Oriental is like saying the 'N' word."
"No way...(pulls over Jim, tall white due in his 30s) hey Jim, can I say Oriental?"
"No, you can't say that."
"Oops."
@Gurps , can I say East Indian?
@Dude, I really would encourage that you to reconsider the use of the word "oriental". Perhaps try to use the terms that Census Canada employs. It would be even better if you try not to reference the ethnicity of a person. It is just a human being, and hopefully we start to move towards societies where this is not an issue or noticed.
The problem is that the word "Oriental" is closely associated to a time in Canada/USA/UK where the general attitude was something like:
"As early as 1882 … Macdonald referred to the Chinese as “an inferior race,” “semi-barbarians,” or “machines with whom Canadians could not compete” but whose labour was necessary for railway construction. Moreover, Macdonald believed the Mongolian and Aryan races could never combine. In short, John A. Macdonald was a racist, but he was also a practical politician and nation-builder. Thus, he sympathized with British Columbia’s demands for Chinese restriction, and as soon as the railway was virtually complete, his government introduced a Chinese immigration Act. In 1885, Macdonald was a hero to many British Columbians: he had fulfilled the railway promise and his new immigration law seemed likely to permit white British Columbians to enjoy the benefits of Confederation without the fear of being overwhelmed by low-paid Chinese immigrants."
This is not an issue of the past. It still lingers in our society. I know that you will all get all up and down, but in the Canadian Soccer National Team there is NO one single individual of Asian descent or South Asian descent. Prejudice against those individual still exist on the Canadian soccer circles. It just manifest in subtle manners, but at the end those groups are been marginalized or excluded from the National Team. It is a form of institutionalized bias and prejudice.
@Dude, there is no need to insult people.
In US they prohibited to use Oriental word in all federal documents.
They are trying to prohibit word Caucasian in all federal documents as well. I guess some people find it offensive to call someone based on their geographic origin, its definitely an interesting topic to discuss.
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-tsuchiyama-oriental-insult-20160601-snap-story.html
Why do we spend sso much time so obsessed about Trumps tweets or what Roseanne has to say? I have more important things to deal with.