occidental/oriental
american/asian
european/asian
african/asian
In a message dated 1/22/2006 4:36:43 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
theolflash@... writes:
What is derogatory about the term "Oriental"? For 70+ years it has meant a
person or thing from the Orient to me. Is there something derogatory about the
term "Easterner" referring to a New Yorker?
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From: agonpd@aol.com
Date: Sun Jan 22, 2006 8:14pm
Subject: Re: [vpFREE] Say What?
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Subject: [vpFREE] Say What?
From: "Bob Dancer" <bob.dancer@...>
Date: Sat Jan 21, 2006 5:39 am
Subject: RE: [vpFREE] Large loss rebates bobdancer05
When I played at the MGM Grand (it's been almost 5 years since I
was run off), you had a better chance of getting a loss rebated if you
were Oriental --- and the rebates were a percentage of your markers. So
if you had $100,000 in markers and you were Oriental (even if you were
born in California --- were an American citizen --- and didn't know any
Chinese words. You were Oriental if you LOOKED Oriental and had an
Oriental surname), you could probably get $10,000 or $20,000 forgiven.
My response: I was so distracted by the language in the first sentence
I ignored what you were saying about rebates.
If you call Asians or Asian-Americans "Orientals" I shudder to think
what you call blacks.
You know better.