Actually, the word "oriental" in the U.S. has the same reputation as "Russ"/"Russkie" (Russian), "Finn" (Finnish), "Chink" (Chinese) or "Spic" (Someone of Hispanic or Mediterranean descent). Neither is as offensive as the N-word or the J-word ("Jap"), but these are considered to be offensive and no one would say them.
Oriental describes carpets, not people
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• Scandal: Abby, on Stephen: "I don't understand why a successful, charming man like him, with a good job, needs to sleep with whores." Abby is hardly an innocent, nor Stephen's actual wife.
I feel silly asking this, but what is the dissonance here? I don't know if it needs to be deleted, just explained a little better.
"This host's behavior on a Canadian game show may have been acceptable in the early '80s, but to present-day viewers, it seems incredibly creepy." When I tried the link, it came up as a video unavailable. Should we delete this?
Gotta grin... interesting example of Values Dissonance, here on the page about Values Dissonance. Is this meta-editing? I looked down at an entry or two I remember making here and was interested to see they'd been edited... (TV series, Banzai and Clive James on TV. One edit was a factual correction where I'd got a detail wrong. Fair enough, I'm OK about that, well done for spotting it, et c. But in the original text - about Japanaes TV shows and parodies of them done in Britain - I'd used the word "Oriental". Every incidence of "oriental" had been replaced by "East Asian". Thought about this. then it struck me that "oriental" is a matter-of-fact descriptive word used to denote people or places in the Far East. Nothing more or less than that. In Britain, anyway. Maybe we use it to make a distinction from "Asian" - which to us primarily means the Indian subcontinent. But apparently, people of East Asian origin in the USA object to this and consider it's an n-word? interesting how the word itself causes values dissonance...
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