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Bosu
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States3247 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-12-12 15:04:26
December 12 2008 15:04 GMT
#101
If people get offended by hearing people describe others by the color of there skin they should be beaten with a stick. It drives me up the fucking wall when people try to describe a person by clothign or hair style and then when I figure out who they are talking about its the only black person in the room. It's not offensive to say what color somebody is thats what fucking color they are.

Not all black people are african americans so when referring to a black person that you do not know black is more suitable. That being said I wouldn't refer to an asian person as yellow because they don't look yellow, asians look asian and indians look indian.
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Phyre
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
United States1288 Posts
December 12 2008 15:05 GMT
#102
I'm chinese but if anyone ever asks me what my ethnicity is I usually answer with Asian unless someone asks me to be more specific. My general rule of thumb is to refer to people by what they commonly refer to themselves as. Most chinese, korean, japenese, etc people I know refer to themselves as being asian. Same goes for my white friends, they refer to themselves as being white.
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LemOn
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
United Kingdom8629 Posts
December 12 2008 15:06 GMT
#103
I am calling my black homeboy a nigga, he says I am his favourite white boy and I don't see anything wrong with that if there is no negative intention.

And as for Asians, yellow is used amongst people that don't distinguish Korean, Japanese, Chinese and others. I would think that most people on this site know the differences. So using the term yellow is a little bit ignorant.
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JMave
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Singapore1806 Posts
December 12 2008 15:07 GMT
#104
I think yellow is refered to the chinese and brown to Indians. That's what it is anyway in Singapore.
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SuperJongMan
Profile Blog Joined March 2003
Jamaica11586 Posts
December 12 2008 16:47 GMT
#105
Did no one mention gold yet?
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MoltkeWarding
Profile Joined November 2003
5195 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-12-12 17:33:38
December 12 2008 17:33 GMT
#106
I've rarely found it necessary to use an inclusive adjective for Asian, since the term "Asian" is semantically irrelevant. Lacking a common culture, religion or value system, "Asian" only has meaning insofar as it denotes a geographical location. Saying something is "oriental" or "yellow" possesses perhaps some residual connotations- for "tyrannical," "regimented," or "treacherous," in the Western vernacular, but beyond this, I've never found it necessary to refer to "Asians" as a whole.
Hot_Bid
Profile Blog Joined October 2003
Braavos36389 Posts
December 12 2008 17:45 GMT
#107
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KissBlade
Profile Blog Joined October 2004
United States5718 Posts
December 12 2008 17:56 GMT
#108
If people weren't racist to Asians, I'd say it's perfectly fine. Unfortunately, that has yet to be accomplished.
iNcontroL *
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
USA29055 Posts
December 12 2008 18:04 GMT
#109
had you guys done a better job on the railroads we wouldn't need to be racist. Also all those japanese spies we found in ww2? I mean common... they had families of them.
KissBlade
Profile Blog Joined October 2004
United States5718 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-12-12 18:08:18
December 12 2008 18:07 GMT
#110
Hehe, I see what you did there. But yeah, Teamliquid is pretty good with this aspect though. I mean, no surprise there, it's a Starcraft fansite. There are still the occasional douche but what can you do.
EGMachine
Profile Blog Joined February 2006
United States1643 Posts
December 12 2008 18:21 GMT
#111
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EmeraldSparks
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United States1451 Posts
December 12 2008 20:16 GMT
#112
Among people of Asian descent living in America, the world Oriental was seen as pejorative and civic leaders or what-have-you wanted to replace it with another term. For a while they were intending on "yellow" but South Asians, being darker than yellow, objected, so now we have "Asian-American."
But why?
3 Lions
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States3705 Posts
December 12 2008 20:29 GMT
#113
A lot of Korean/Chinese/Japanese people in the US don't think of Indians as Asian. Personally, for me, Korean/Chinese/Japanese/Vietnamese/anything west of India and south of Russia is Asian, everything else is Middle-eastern or Russian or Indian.
SK.Testie
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Canada11084 Posts
December 12 2008 20:29 GMT
#114
Yellow just sounds dumb.
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Hot_Bid
Profile Blog Joined October 2003
Braavos36389 Posts
December 12 2008 20:53 GMT
#115
asian when directed at people has ethnic/racial meaning, it doesn't mean continental asian, so please stop getting hung up by that.

racially, indians are caucasian. they are not asian.
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ZERG_RUSSIAN
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
10417 Posts
December 12 2008 21:05 GMT
#116
On December 13 2008 02:33 MoltkeWarding wrote:
I've rarely found it necessary to use an inclusive adjective for Asian, since the term "Asian" is semantically irrelevant. Lacking a common culture, religion or value system, "Asian" only has meaning insofar as it denotes a geographical location. Saying something is "oriental" or "yellow" possesses perhaps some residual connotations- for "tyrannical," "regimented," or "treacherous," in the Western vernacular, but beyond this, I've never found it necessary to refer to "Asians" as a whole.

It's kinda like saying "North American". Sometimes it is necessary.

On December 12 2008 22:25 HnR)hT wrote:
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On December 12 2008 22:03 TheTyranid wrote:
On December 12 2008 21:51 ZERG_RUSSIAN wrote:
On December 12 2008 18:06 TheTyranid wrote:
Stupid thread.

Saying black or white is not racist or offensive, why should yellow be?

Maybe because our skin color isn't yellow?

What do you mean by "our"

He's probably not Russian. I think his nickname is a reflection of Western ignorance/propaganda about the Great Patriotic War.

It's a play on "zerg rushing".

I'm Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Okinawan, Dutch, Irish, Welsch and Native American.
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Alizee-
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
United States845 Posts
December 12 2008 22:12 GMT
#117
On December 12 2008 09:28 SerVanT wrote:
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On December 12 2008 09:26 Alizee- wrote:
Yeah well I'm white and people call me white, let's have a war. Get over yourselves and quit saying everything is offensive.

Or just look past the color and not call anyone anything. We're all human aren't we?


No, that would mean humanity as a whole would actually progress for a change rather than creating 6 page+ forum threads debating in cyclical fashion that does no good for anyone. You're not....CRAZY are you?
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shinigami
Profile Blog Joined June 2004
Canada423 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-12-12 22:47:03
December 12 2008 22:46 GMT
#118
My area's youth and young adults are pretty mellow so we always use chink, nigger, whitey, etc casually. Nobody ever really uses gook around here, so I was confused when I encountered someone calling me that online.

It was an awkward moment; He assumed I knew what it meant, and assumed I was asking what it meant just to gain an edge in the exchange. So naturally, he did his best to appear as if he knew what I was supposedly trying to do... UrbanDictionary.com wasn't around at the time so I didn't know what the hell he was getting at until I asked a fellow gook friend about it.

So in the end, since we still never really use it, I normally refer to gooks and myself as chinks.

(Edit: Fixed colour tags!)
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ZERG_RUSSIAN
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
10417 Posts
December 12 2008 23:23 GMT
#119
See, that's great and all, but Canada didn't have quite the same history with slavery as America did. Saying "nigger" to someone down here can potentially get you shot.
I'm on GOLD CHAIN
shinigami
Profile Blog Joined June 2004
Canada423 Posts
December 12 2008 23:56 GMT
#120
On December 13 2008 08:23 ZERG_RUSSIAN wrote:
See, that's great and all, but Canada didn't have quite the same history with slavery as America did. Saying "nigger" to someone down here can potentially get you shot.
I was thinking about joining a debate club, but I was talked out of it.
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