Re: Incorrect use of "it's" in package control files -- file mass bug?
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Brian Nelson wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 10:58:19AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> > How is "asian" "bizarre and idiotic"? It's just as accurate in this usage
> > as the old term (that is, not very [and both are context specific]), but
> > lacks the pejorative sense -- all the asians I know happily use "asian" to
> > describe themselves, whereas this is hard to imagine with "oriental".
> > Morever, it's natural sounding and short (unlike, say, "person of color").
>
> Because it's used in exactly the same way Oriental was--to refer to
> people from a select few countries in Eastern Asia. Are Filipinos,
> Russian, Indians, or Iraqis also not "Asian"?
>
To add to the idiocy, in Great Britain Asian refers exclusively to people
from the Indian subcontinent not Orientals, er, Asians.
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Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@debian.org>
La Salle Debain - http://www.braincells.com/debian/
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