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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.

Don't get out much? It's on par with "negro". That might not get you smacked
in the mouth if you said it to a black man, but I guarantee you'd be the
subject of disparaging remarks.