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To: Ditter

People are Asian things are oriental


41 posted on 11/27/2015 1:27:33 AM PST by Navyguy1977
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To: Navyguy1977

That’s the accepted PC convention today - largely brought on by those associating race with countries/regions of origin and hyphenating them with “American.”

As a boy in the 1950s, I can remember movies, TV and media using “Oriental” for the now-Asian a lot.


47 posted on 11/27/2015 2:10:36 AM PST by Gaffer
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