Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 2003-09-21 bdcolen@earthlink.net (bdcolen) thoughtfully wrote: >Actually, no, Jack - It's hardly new. I first heard it about a decade >ago when an Asian student in a class at Harvard Medical School dropped >it on a prof who used "Orientals?" I wonder, would you say the same >thing about the use of blacks or African Americans in place of n*****? >Or Jews, rather than k****? Or how about Irish, rather than h****? As >you well know, the term harks back to the days when the sun never set on >the British Empire. Why does using the factually correct term bother >you? Can you show me a modern map of the world with the term "Orient" on >it? Just wondering. Sigh -- sometimes you're just SO politically correct BD. I guess we'll have to rename the movie "The World of Henry Asian" and be done with it. Oriental just is not the same as nigger. It isn't. Unless you happen to be living in the time of the Haj. But you know it doesn't have the same derogatory as any of the words you so delicately alluded to but couldn't bring yourself to write. And I give up on the term for Irish that you find so incredibly distasteful. Adam - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html