Crikey, eeee by gum, you deserve a good tongue lashing for that jab at us ever so cute English.
Okay, I'll volunteer.
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Is "oriental" truly offensive?
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Crikey, eeee by gum, you deserve a good tongue lashing for that jab at us ever so cute English.
Okay, I'll volunteer.
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And she is an excellent example. Yes the Indian Subcontinent is in Asia, but obviously Indians (especially someone from a northwest Indian background - her case half Punjabi half Sindhi ancestry) are not "oriental" in the sense of Chinese or Japanese. It is generally best to be as specific as possible in this case (as previously mentioned) in North America South Asian, or in the U.K. Asian or if one actually knew Indian.But words have meaning.
Kareena Kapoor
Or in other terms: Northwest Indians are members of the Caucasoid rather than the Mongololid branch of the human family.
lol...the intelligence level on TERB scares me sometimes....btw Japan,Taiwan , Philliphines , Hong kong , Malaysia, Indonesia, Macau...i think those are the major asian island nations.
White or caucasian is not too broad at all. They refer to appearance, not culture or nationality. If I don't know what their nationality or ancestry is...how do I describe a white guy other than white guy of caucasian?
And I don't think orientals are not my countrymen. They are people whose ancestry I likely believe originated in what I think of as the orient.
Some say I am good with words.
I am the consumate cunning linguist.:biggrin1:
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When i was but a young lad, we were told that WOGS aka Woggies were the arab types that worked for Victoria in North Africa.
Then there was always Noddy's friend the Goliwog that clouded that description.
Of course the above has done nothing to clarify the issue, but this being TERB, why be precise.
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