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Joe Biden Refers to Asia as the "Orient"
Mediaite ^ | September 17, 2014 | Eddie Scarry

Posted on 09/17/2014 12:39:14 PM PDT by Biggirl

Just hours after apologizing for using what was perceived as an anti-Semitic slur, Vice President Joe Biden deployed another term Wednesday that some might consider ethnically offensive.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: asians; biden; joebiden; plugs; yew
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1 posted on 09/17/2014 12:39:14 PM PDT by Biggirl
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To: Biggirl

Stand up, Chuck.


2 posted on 09/17/2014 12:41:59 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: Biggirl

What hemisphere is Asia in?


3 posted on 09/17/2014 12:42:55 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: Biggirl

That’s the first time I ever heard that Orient is now a slur. When did that happen?


4 posted on 09/17/2014 12:43:48 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Saying that ISIL is not Islamic is like saying Obama is not an Idiot.)
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To: Biggirl

What’s the problem with “orient”?

Tell it to the Chinese

http://www.oocl.com/eng/aboutoocl/companyprofile/oocltoday/Pages/default.aspx?site=usa&lang=eng


5 posted on 09/17/2014 12:45:17 PM PDT by Ray76 (We must destroy the Uniparty or be destroyed by them.)
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To: Biggirl

Obama really picked Biden for VP because just standing next to him he looks like a genius.

6 posted on 09/17/2014 12:45:50 PM PDT by Slyfox (Satan's goal is to rub out the image of God he sees in the face of every human.)
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To: Biggirl

I say “oriental”, I don’t care.

Actually, I think I should be saying “yellow”.

Why is the parlance of the day thus:

-white
-African-American
-Asian

See all the inconsistency?

Really the easiest and most “accurate” might be white/black/yellow. Or the official names, Caucasoid/Negroid/Mongoloid.

Why is 1 identified by “color”, but that is cruel and racist for the others?

The “African-American” thing really gets my goat. First, it implies they really came from Africa (that was common form in my youth - Italian-American, etc). It also is useless in any place BUT America. Are they African-Americans in Italy? (Story there)

They don’t bother saying American, but “Asian” again implies some area, and requires capitalizing it, another peeve of mine. IDs should be very easy to use.

Don’t get me going!


7 posted on 09/17/2014 12:47:18 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: P-Marlowe

So I guess the P&O company will have to change its name?
http://www.ponl.com/


8 posted on 09/17/2014 12:47:41 PM PDT by abb ("News reporting is too important to be left to the journalists." Walter Abbott (1950 -))
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To: P-Marlowe

I don’t know when that happened, but I’ve heard the preferred term is now Asian. I was told that Oriental is a rug, and Asian are the people.

I know its hard to keep up with all the politically correct terminology.


9 posted on 09/17/2014 12:48:19 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (s)
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To: humblegunner

Most of Asia is located in the Northern Hemisphere. However, some small islands that make up the southeast part of Asia, are south of the equator. Therefore, Asia is located in the Northern, and Southern Hemispheres whereas Biden is in Lalaland.


10 posted on 09/17/2014 12:49:05 PM PDT by Brother Cracker (You are more likely to find krugerrands in a Cracker Jack box than 22 ammo at Wal-Mart)
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To: Biggirl

And the media give him a pass.


11 posted on 09/17/2014 12:49:06 PM PDT by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: Biggirl

He’s an “old school” bigot. Today’s bigots know that they need to use politically correct language in expressing their bigotry. Has he ever read a book? Besides Rules for Radicals and the Koran, has Obama ever read a book?


12 posted on 09/17/2014 12:49:22 PM PDT by Seeing More Clearly Now
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It supposedly comes from the fact that Orient means East, and that means Asia is being defined in geographical terms relative to Europe.

The Japanese do (did?) call themselves "the Land of the Rising Sun", which is even more accurately "Orient" --- the word comes from the term for "toward the sunrise"--- that is, "east" with reference to the sky, not the geography. China preferred to call itself the Middle Kingdom.

Most nationalities like to think tof themselves as being the Center.

It's an odd thing, though. "Western Civilization." West of whom?

13 posted on 09/17/2014 12:49:51 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("OK, youse guys, pair off by threes." - Yogi Berra)
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To: Biggirl

Close enough for government work.


14 posted on 09/17/2014 12:49:51 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Biggirl

He didn’t do it on purpose. It was occidental.

CC


15 posted on 09/17/2014 12:50:50 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (tease not the dragon for thou art crunchy when roasted and taste good with ketchup)
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To: Biggirl

There are a lot of cute ornamental girls from that part of the world.


16 posted on 09/17/2014 12:52:37 PM PDT by forgotten man
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To: Biggirl

Someone needs to tell Parker Bros. To change the name of Orient Avenue in “Monopoly” before someone gets offended!!


17 posted on 09/17/2014 12:53:17 PM PDT by ObozoMustGo2012
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18 posted on 09/17/2014 12:55:13 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: P-Marlowe

Once I was “corrected” by my friend’s friend, a white girl.

That is the only time I’ve definitively heard that “oriental” is offensive. Well, implied; she said “...Asian...” and that was it.


19 posted on 09/17/2014 12:55:44 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: Biggirl

I’ll bet that set off a Chinese Fire Drill in the administration.


20 posted on 09/17/2014 12:55:51 PM PDT by PAR35
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