On 1/15/2014 9:40 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> In article >,
> Dave Smith > wrote:
>> On 2014-01-14 5:02 PM, Helpful person wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 4:40:47 PM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
>>>>
>>>> It's hard to keep up with the PCness of it all. Apparently it is no
>>>> longer appropriate to refer to Chinese people are Chinese. They are
>>>> Asian, just like the Japanese, Taiwanese, Vietnamese, Laotions etc.
>>>> Indians are no longer Indians. They are south Asians.
>>>
>>> It's ridiculous. I've know many Scots who
>>> would be insulted to be referred to as British.
>>> I refer to myself as English.
>>>
>>> To call someone from Thailand "Asian" I would
>>> consider an insult, if I know their true
>>> origin.
>>>
>>
>> I guess the problem is that there are too many people out there with too
>> much time on their hands and who are quick to take offense where no
>> offense was intended. For some reason, it is no longer PC to refer to
>> people from China as being Chinese.
>
> I had not heard that. I thought "Oriental" was un-PC because it
> kind of implies that Europe is the center of the universe.
> (But we all know that the center of the universe is the U.S.
>

But China has always been sure that it was "the Middle Kingdom". I can't
reproduce the character here but it is sort of a square with an upright
straight line thro it.


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Jim Silverton (Potomac, MD)

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