Go ahead and try and change the name.
Chinatown Chamber of Commerce will call the cops and the cops will bring a paddy wagon.
Posted on 05/01/2017 9:00:02 AM PDT by kevcol
Tsui, the author of American Chinatown: A People’s History of Five Neighborhoods, took to the pages of the New York Times in an op-ed titled "Why is Asian Salad Still on the Menu?" She writes, "The persistence of these names—let’s at least call them ‘questionable’—on the American restaurant menu underscores how non-Asian-Americans have been making up their own version of Asianness for a long time now."
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This use of "Oriental" and "Asian" is rooted in the wide-ranging, "all look same" stereotypes of Asian culture that most people don’t really perceive as being racist. It creates a kind of blind spot.
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LOL.
But even here in America if we carry to the extreme, isn’t it bigoted and insensitive to call the neighborhood Chinatown???
Ditto with places which have Little Italy, Little Tokyo, Little Saigon neighborhoods.
I wonder how she’d feel if it was called a Ch**k Salad?
True. And aren’t some states named after Indian tribes? Utah named for Ute tribe, the Dakotas named after the Dakota tribe.
She is insane, but without realizing it, makes my point.
I have been complaining for years, that the Victim Category “Asian” is overly broad, encompassing residents of countries with vastly different cultures, and which are so different that they should not be ever placed in the same category.
Vietnamese and Saudi. Any resemblance there? None.
“Asian” was deliberately chosen to be overly broad so as to make it as big a victim group as possible, in order to give it the most political clout.
Leftists invented the word, not me. Leftists are guilty of thinking that “they all look alike,” not me. So the b!tch is complaining about leftists, and should shut up.
And it isn’t racist.
They should have called it
“Asian Sarad”
TRUMP? HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?
It happened because you banned super-sized sodas. And smoking in parks.
And offensive ideas on campus.
Because you branded people who oppose gay marriage ‘homophobic’, and people unsure about immigration ‘racist’.
Because you treated owning a gun and never having eaten quinoa as signifiers of fascism.
Because you thought correcting people’s attitudes was more important than finding them jobs.
Because you turned ‘white man’ from a description into an insult.
Because you used slurs like ‘denier’ and ‘dangerous’ against anyone who doesn’t share your eco-pieties.
Because you treated dissent as hate speech and criticism of Obama as extremism.
Because you talked more about gender-neutral toilets than about home repossessions.
Because you beautified Caitlyn Jenner.
Because you policed people’s language, rubbished their parenting skills, took the validity out of their beliefs.
Because you cried when someone mocked the Koran but laughed when they mocked the Bible.
Because you said criticizing Islam is Islamophobia.
Because you kept telling people, “You can’t think that, you can’t say that, you can’t do that”.
Because you turned politics from something done by and for people to something done to them, for their own good.
Because you treated people like sh*t. And people don’t like being treated like sh*t.
Trump happened because of YOU !
To this, I would add "Because you made a federal case out of "oriental" vs "asian" vs "whatevereffingwordanyonetriestousetodescribeanything"
Because you BEATIFIED Caitlyn Jenner......Instead of calling HIM the idiot that cut off his own D*$K................
Paddy Wagon!
That’s insensitive to Irish folks!
Who drink a lot...............
Gosh. I think I, part Italian, was micro-aggressively assaulted way back when the Texans and Lousianans offered me Wop salad.
Stupid me. I used to laugh at it. Little did I know haw damaged I was. But only microly so, so had no discernable effect.
I understand your sentiment, and agree in many cases, that is best.
But the problem is, if it were just freedom of expression, that would be fine. But it isn’t. They are bound and determined to weave a huge web of legislation and bureaucracy to force you to kneel to their insanity.
Even now, with this, I could see some guy working at a cafeteria or something losing his job because of his lack of “sensitivity” and calling it an “oriental” salad versus an “asian” salad, or whatever the next “politically correct” version of what we are allowed to call it is approved by some unelected and unknown commissar somewhere.
Agreed...like NORMAL, SANE people would do.
Maybe if they were actually good salads.
Throw some lemongrass in, and it’s now Thai or Vietnamese...
Political correctness is transforming our language into George Orwell’s “newspeak” a language designed to make creative thought or any dissent against Big Brother impossible.
(only kidding...I DO like salad...:)
The over broad lumping together of diverse ethnicities and even races irritates my wife no end. She will say she is Thai, period. She has no similarities with Afghan, Indian or Turk to begin with. Neither does she see herself as Chinese or Japanese even though there are similarities.
I’d say the term Hispanic has similar problems. People I know identify with their country of ancestry (Mexican, Cuban, Columbian, etc. ).
Yep. Pare away the many different meanings of words, ostensibly to streamline it, but more truthfully, to confine the ability of language to express a concept that deviates from the government’s decree of what language should be allowed to express and how it can be expressed.
Heck, even “Salad” might have to be excised from the “Liberal Newspeak Dictionary”, because it implies there could be food other than healthy/approved vegetarian dishes.
Totally off topic, but the sign reads 22nd St.?? I thought in Chicago that 22nd St. had been renamed Cermak Road many decades ago?? I lived in Chicago 30 years ago and it was Cermak then.
WAITRESS: One orda of Asian sarad and eggror... If you want dog with sarad it cost you extra 5 dolla roundeye.
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