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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"it means that those sweet oriental kids are going to have to be suspended and expelled from schools at a rate that is equal to the rate that blacks are suspended, expelled, and otherwise punished regardless of what the reality is in the school system."

Just for your information - people aren't oriental.  Rugs are oriental.  People are Asian.[/quote]

The word ‘Oriental’ is not offensive. It is used all over the Far East and to me has always conjured up postive connotations. It is a wonderful word and it would be a shame to lose it from the language.

Asia has many races and sub-races who are distinct from each other! Arabs, Persians, Caucasians, Turks, South Asians (Indians & Pakistanis & Indonesians), Malay (who are more similar to Polynesians or Australian Aboriginals), and ORIENTALS aka far-East-Asians who are racially “different” than the above mentioned Asian groups.  Asian is too broad since the Asian Continent is so huge and has so many races as discussed above.

A group somewhere decided to declare it as offensive for reasons best known to themselves; perhaps it gives them (ie. you) a false sense of superiority.

Now - back to the subject at hand.
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Correction Arabs, persians, Turks are not Asian...  They have always fallen under Caucasion/White...  Even many Hispanics used to be considered white on census forms.[/quote]

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