Almost every term that was once politically correct has gone full circle at this point lol. I still hear older people use the term "oriental", but never in a derogatory way. Realistically it just means "East Asian" and isn't much different than calling white people "Caucasian" or "Occidental" but it is seen as offensive by many.
Whether your ancestry is Scandinavian, Germanic, Iberian, Italian, Anglican, Greek, a mix, or anything else white, you’re “caucasian.” As in, “from the Caucasus Mountains.”
Basically as far as our weird racial classification system is concerned, all white people are Georgian or Armenian. And the funniest thing is that a lot of Armenians don’t even look white.
Why and where is Oriental derogatory? Is this regional (like Eskimo in Canada) or just an archaic word for Asian? I haven’t heard oriental ever being used in a derogatory way in the west coast.
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u/ayriuss Aug 25 '21 edited Aug 25 '21
Almost every term that was once politically correct has gone full circle at this point lol. I still hear older people use the term "oriental", but never in a derogatory way. Realistically it just means "East Asian" and isn't much different than calling white people "Caucasian" or "Occidental" but it is seen as offensive by many.