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Since when did oriental become.sm - Anon Posted: Jul 15th, 2015 - 1:20 pm In Reply to: Would you change "oriental" to "Asian" in a dictation? - verbatim/shcmerbatim
an ethnic slur. It is NOT, and I'm sure the doc did not mean it in a derogatory way. I have a Chinese friend, born in Hong Kong who came here as a teenager, who has no problem with the term. Ethnic terms do change over time, and it does not necessarily mean that an older term becomes a slur when it is replaced by a more contemporary term. We went from Negro to black to African American. Using the term black is not a slur, and you still see it used. It didn't suddenly become a bad word when it was replaced. It usually takes a while for the more contemporary terms to take hold, maybe even a couple of generations.
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