Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 12:13 PM 9/23/03 -0500, Karen Nakamura wrote: >Anyway, you're just revealing your ignorance and insensitivty with >this thread, I suggest that you drop it. It reminds me of Southerners >who didn't want to give up the N*gro/n*gger terms because they are >dervied from the latin word for "Black" so what's the problem? Or who >will use the terms because they notice that Black kids use them >within the community, so why can't white people use them too? Thank you, Karen, for your sensitive and helpful response. Name-calling really doesn't work either way, does it? I live in a town of 200,000 folks with a small but active community of Orientals. We routinely call them Orientals. The Newspaper, a left-wing rag of the most outrageous sort, calls them Orientals. I have never heard a mutter of dissent about this, and, yes, I have a number of social acquaintances who are of Oriental extraction, which is why I said that I would ask them. I will pay special attention to those who are first-generation immigrants. I still see nothing offensive in the term "Oriental. I do see the term "Asian" as used in the US press, as being racist, but, then, I know the history of my own nation: the 1922 California act, for instance, forbidding the immigration of Japanese was entitled the "Asian Exclusion Act" and the 1942 arrest of the Nisei was under the "Regulation for the Confinement of Certain Asian Persons". Marc msmall@infionline.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir! - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html