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I imagine these same ****wits who are insisting
"Grecian" is correct also still want to call Asians
"Orientals".

Asians *are* orientals you idiot.




Why don't you try running the term "Oriental" by the next few Asians
you
meet and see sort of reaction you get?



Here's a neat link, Doug. The term "Oriental" rates a big, fat ZERO
on
the
"disparagement scale" of the "Offensiveness Quotient".

Look at the definition of "oriental" in ANY on-line
dictionary (we know you don't own a printed one). The
definition meaning "Asian person" is ALWAYS indicated
as offensive. Always.


Not he

http://www.webster-dictionary.org/definition/Oriental

or here

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/oriental%20person

or here

http://www.wordiq.com/dictionary/oriental.html

In fact, I cannot find anything on the net that refers to the use of the
word Oriental as offensive.

I found an online dictionary site that refers to it as offensive...but that
matters not. ****tard clearly said "ANY online dictionary"...and you've
posted at least three examples contrary to his claim.

When I was younger, the term "Oriental" wasn't offensive. Somehow, it's
slowly becoming an offensive term.

When my grandmother was younger, the term she used for black people (can you
still say "black people" nowadays?) was "colored"...and it wasn't
offensive. During my entire life, the term has been offensive.

It all boils down to this: if a non-white person calls an oriental an
oriental, then it's ok. If a white person says it, then it's offensive.