# Jew/Jewish; Oriental/Asian; Black/African-American

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jew-jewish-oriental-asian-black-african-american/724424>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 6, 2015, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jew-jewish-oriental-asian-black-african-american/724424 "2015-07-06T22:05:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2015, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jew-jewish-oriental-asian-black-african-american/724424/21 "2015-07-07T13:45:24Z")

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> [@Simplicio](#):
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> Eh, I’m still trying to bring back “Celestial”.
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> (I actually occasionally find “oriental” useful since I work in a physics dept. which has a lot of international students and staff, and if I need to give a physical description and use “asian” to someone who learned English in the UK, they figure I mean Indian/Pakistani rather than E. Asian.)

E. Asian, then.

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**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2015, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jew-jewish-oriental-asian-black-african-american/724424/22 "2015-07-07T13:52:05Z")

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> [@Anaamika](#):
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> Asian, and please don’t call me or my SO Oriental. We probably won’t be offended, but yes, we’ll think you just stepped out of a time warp. Oriental is for rugs. And for old people. I had one of my coworkers - who is pretty old - whip it out the other day. “That nice Oriental man”. I didn’t mean to look askance at her, but I must have, for she corrected herself!
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> Then again, I’m Indian so even the Asians don’t really think of us as Asian. ☹ South Asian, and we’re not wanted by anyone!

+1

I’m Asian, but not the way people mean it. And I was never Oriental.

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