• VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf
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    1 year ago

    Last I checked.

    Fun fact: when you say “Asian” to an American, their first thought is East or Southeast Asia, but a British person’s primary association with “Asianness”, for lack of a better term, is India and Pakistan.

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            1 year ago

            We don’t call it that anymore. Haven’t for decades.

            As for the why, the time when that term was in regular use was a time with a lot of anti-asian bigotry and most of the people who refuse to stop using it are the same ones who use other outdated terms/slurs for non-white and non-western people, so it has tons of negative connotations…

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        1 year ago

        My mom complained that the ramen she likes isn’t called Oriental anymore.

        SIGH