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AesSedai
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Maybe they meant it to be used as definition 2a:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oriental
Might try to bring it up with the people that made the banner if you'd like to get to the bottom of it.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oriental
Might try to bring it up with the people that made the banner if you'd like to get to the bottom of it.
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Arch Magus
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I don't consider "Oriental" politically Incorrect.
I guess my opinion doesn't really matter since I believe the whole "politically correct" wave has gone way too far. People need to stop being so sensitive to words that have never meant anything derogatory. I'm not saying some things are completely distasteful or just plain wrong to use (the N-word comes to mind), but worrying about the word "oriental" is a bit much for me.
Oriental is like saying "White" or "Black". Are we all supposed to say Caucasian? European? Light Skinned? African? African-American? Asian? Chinese? Indian? Native American? Am I still allowed to say someone is Blonde or brown-eyed? Actually I never understood Native American. The Asians that came from Siberia might have been here before the Europeans, but I was born in the United States, so I'm as native as anyone else.
The word "Orient" basically refers to the Far East. Many people think of India, Pakistan, and Tibet when they think of "Asian". As far as I'm concerned, the Orient is China, Korea, Vietnam, Taiwan, and maybe even Japan.
I guess my opinion doesn't really matter since I believe the whole "politically correct" wave has gone way too far. People need to stop being so sensitive to words that have never meant anything derogatory. I'm not saying some things are completely distasteful or just plain wrong to use (the N-word comes to mind), but worrying about the word "oriental" is a bit much for me.
Oriental is like saying "White" or "Black". Are we all supposed to say Caucasian? European? Light Skinned? African? African-American? Asian? Chinese? Indian? Native American? Am I still allowed to say someone is Blonde or brown-eyed? Actually I never understood Native American. The Asians that came from Siberia might have been here before the Europeans, but I was born in the United States, so I'm as native as anyone else.
The word "Orient" basically refers to the Far East. Many people think of India, Pakistan, and Tibet when they think of "Asian". As far as I'm concerned, the Orient is China, Korea, Vietnam, Taiwan, and maybe even Japan.
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AesSedai
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- OMG! You said blonde! You should be banned, naw! Everyone knows that means you are referring to the butt of a joke... 
Ah poo. I was only referring to the bear, that's the ticket. la law and sandy sanchez all agree.
Ah poo. I was only referring to the bear, that's the ticket. la law and sandy sanchez all agree.
I think it's ok to say action is oriental - you can refer to objects and things as oriental, but not people specifically (if you want to be pc about it). "Oriental action" does sound kind of stupid though. I mean if they're just going for some kind of generic asian thing (god forbid we be specific but instead lump a few a whole bunch of countries and areas together) they should have just said asian, despite the porn overtones (which could actually really only help a game, you'd think).
Well just to let you know.... oriental, did, indeed, have overt negative meaning. Goes back to old ideas of occidental vs. oriental and the savage vs. the civilized mind. Check Franz Boas if you'd like a reading reference.
The fact that, most people, today, simply don't know any better and use the word out of habit, not knowing it's offensive, doesn't mean it isn't. It's like growing up in a family that always used the n-word and not knowing any better. You should still be discouraged from using it in public.
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Dalton4902
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I think it's pretty pathetic when people find something as small as using the word "Oriental" to try and crack down on. There is nothing politically incorrect, and, seriously, who cares? Are Orientals, in fact, Oriental? Why, yes I do believe they are!!
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Bara
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I've always thought that calling a person oriental is impolite, but it's okay to refer to an 'oriental rug' and the like. The first use is a racial slur on par with refering to a person as 'colored', but the second use of the word is completely different as it refers to an astetic style, rather than the ethnicity of an individual or group.