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I personally can't think of any white, black, hispanic, or asian person that I know that has or would be offended by being referred to by their color. It's so common, and it usually isn't said with any kind of negative meaning. If it is, then it's not the reference to color that's offensive, it's the attitude.
Most of the asians I know aren't even offended by the terms "chink" or "gook", they're just like, "What? That just sounds dumb, why would I care about that?" So, at least from my experiences, I haven't seen any issues arise over the use of the word yellow.
Personally, I refer to people by their nationality if I'm aware of what their nationality is, and generally I seem to be pretty good at that. The only times I really hear people being referred to by color is in the case of black or white, because it's so much easier and more neutral to describe them that way than by trying to figure out what European or African country or wherever that they originally came from, especially considering most people wouldn't even know themselves. And yes you could simply call them American, but that can create quite a bit of ambiguity at times.
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I call all my south asian friends brown. One of my east indian friend's Xbox live tag has brown in it. It shouldn't be offensive to be called by your skin color; when somebody says hey white boy I'm not like "HEY YOU SHOULDN'T BE TALKING TO ME LIKE THAT WHEN YOU CALL ME SAY HEY CAUCASIAN BOY!"
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Just call someone asian if they don't look black, brown, native-american, white etc. Personally, I just call my brethrens "chinks", kinda like the way African-Americans do it but more nerdier.
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On December 12 2008 09:37 Xusneb wrote:
Just call someone asian if they don't look black, brown, native-american, white etc. Personally, I just call my brethrens "chinks", kinda like the way African-Americans do it but more nerdier.
brown people are asian
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On December 12 2008 09:37 d(O.o)a wrote:
I call all my south asian friends brown. One of my east indian friend's Xbox live tag has brown in it. It shouldn't be offensive to be called by your skin color; when somebody says hey white boy I'm not like "HEY YOU SHOULDN'T BE TALKING TO ME LIKE THAT WHEN YOU CALL ME SAY HEY CAUCASIAN BOY!"
then east asian people shouldn't be offended if i call them yellow
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On December 12 2008 09:37 d(O.o)a wrote:
I call all my south asian friends brown. One of my east indian friend's Xbox live tag has brown in it. It shouldn't be offensive to be called by your skin color; when somebody says hey white boy I'm not like "HEY YOU SHOULDN'T BE TALKING TO ME LIKE THAT WHEN YOU CALL ME SAY HEY CAUCASIAN BOY!"
You don't see the difference?
BTW I don't consider you white.
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We need a new name for Middle-eastern while were at it. Arab is kind of racist and they aren't african or asian specifically, their skin color ranges from really really dark to light. Dark hair/brown eyes always.
BoT, yellow is a (n older) slang for cowardly. So it doesn't really fly well.
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why the hell is arab racist?
is indian racist?
is chinese racist?
wtf
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On December 12 2008 09:44 himurakenshin wrote:
why the hell is arab racist?
is indian racist?
is chinese racist?
wtf
because they are not all from arabia?
Its like Europeans calling Mexicans or Canadians - Americans. Geographically its correct, but technically its wrong.
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On December 12 2008 09:45 CharlieMurphy wrote:Show nested quote +On December 12 2008 09:44 himurakenshin wrote:
why the hell is arab racist?
is indian racist?
is chinese racist?
wtf because they are not all from arabia?
the term arab is not racist. if you call all middle-eastern people arab, then your just stupid. people from saudi arabia and iraqi people are arab.
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On December 12 2008 09:46 himurakenshin wrote:Show nested quote +On December 12 2008 09:45 CharlieMurphy wrote:On December 12 2008 09:44 himurakenshin wrote:
why the hell is arab racist?
is indian racist?
is chinese racist?
wtf because they are not all from arabia? the term arab is not racist. if you call all middle-eastern people arab, then your just stupid. people from saudi arabia and iraqi people are arab.
What?>
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On December 12 2008 09:47 CharlieMurphy wrote:Show nested quote +On December 12 2008 09:46 himurakenshin wrote:On December 12 2008 09:45 CharlieMurphy wrote:On December 12 2008 09:44 himurakenshin wrote:
why the hell is arab racist?
is indian racist?
is chinese racist?
wtf because they are not all from arabia? the term arab is not racist. if you call all middle-eastern people arab, then your just stupid. people from saudi arabia and iraqi people are arab. What?>
what??
how on earth are you saying that the term arab is racist?
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you have to call Asians yellow or yellow fever would cease to have all meaning.
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HnR)hT
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I think most people would be offended if you refer to them as "yellow".
There is a term - Orientals - that collectivelly refers to the Chinese, the Japanese, Koreans, etc., and that excludes, for example, Indians and central Asians. However today this term is considered politically incorrect as well.
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Jews, and Isrealites, and Iraqis, etc. all are middle eastern. They are not all arabs. You wouldn't call a jew 'arab'.
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Asian people will be offended invariably unless you guess which specific country they're from, so why worry about it? Kind of ridiculous that the hardest to distinguish race of people require the most distinction in being addressed. I don't see what's wrong with the term "Asian," and just using it for all Asians, including South Asians. Even then, it's even still less-generalized than the term "European" or especially "White". So I don't see what the fuss is about. Frankly I didn't see what the fuss over "oriental" being political incorrect was about either.
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On December 12 2008 09:49 HnR)hT wrote:
I think most people would be offended if you refer to them as "yellow".
There is a term - Orientals - that collectivelly refers to the Chinese, the Japanese, Koreans, etc., and that excludes, for example, Indians and central Asians. However today this term is considered politically incorrect as well.
then what should they be called? as long as i'm called brown, I don't see why they should be called asian.
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you're getting confused my south asian friend
did you not watch crash? most ppl in the us don't make distinctions between middle-easterners after 911, before 911 they didn't even know it existed. well, they only know Aladdin and flying carpet and shit.
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On December 12 2008 09:50 .risingdragoon wrote:
you're getting confused my south asian friend
did you not watch crash? most ppl in the us don't make distinctions between middle-easterners after 911, before 911 they didn't even know it existed. well, they only know Aladdin and flying carpet and shit.
calling all middle-eastern people arab isn't racist, its just being ignorant.
and pls don't patronize me i watched crash.
edit: and i'm well aware that most middle-eastern people are labelled as arab by ignorant people in north america.
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On December 12 2008 09:49 HnR)hT wrote:
I think most people would be offended if you refer to them as "yellow".
There is a term - Orientals - that collectivelly refers to the Chinese, the Japanese, Koreans, etc., and that excludes, for example, Indians and central Asians. However today this term is considered politically incorrect as well.
oriental is referring to "geographical location," that's why it's stupid. it never meant what you said it meant. like occidental is not used to call westerners.
fa crissake the misinformation out there...
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