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To: rightwingintelligentsia

"Should he have said “the golfer of Chinese origin” instead?"

Well, I was corrected by my daughter when, in conversation with her, I referred to a neighbor as oriental. She tells me that the proper term is Asian. I had no idea that oriental was now unacceptable.

86 posted on 04/14/2008 1:56:53 PM PDT by Mila
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To: Mila

I’m sure it was purely occidental.


87 posted on 04/14/2008 2:00:54 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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