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re: Do you say "Black" or "African American"?
Posted on 5/30/14 at 12:58 pm to UGATiger26
Posted on 5/30/14 at 12:58 pm to UGATiger26
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Same here. I say "black." And when I say it at work, my white colleagues will look at me as if to say "did you just say black? Are you allowed to say that?"
I once used the term 'Oriental' and was quickly corrected by a white guy. "It's Asian, not oriental."
I asked him "What about Chinaman? Or Slant Eyes? How about Yellow Peril?"
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Posted on 5/30/14 at 1:31 pm to Zach
quote:that's a geography issue, not being PC.
I once used the term 'Oriental' and was quickly corrected by a white guy. "It's Asian, not oriental."
Posted on 5/30/14 at 1:39 pm to Zach
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I once used the term 'Oriental' and was quickly corrected by a white guy. "It's Asian, not oriental."
Every Oriental person that I've posed the question to says that they perfectly fine with the term "Oriental". I have a hunch that the same people who made up the term "African-American" made up the term "Asian-American", which ironically describes people from Tokyo to Baghdad and doesn't tell you much about a person's ethnic origin.
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