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

[Anaamika]

@Simplicio

Eh, I’m still trying to bring back “Celestial”.

(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.

[Really_Not_All_That_Bright]

@Anaamika

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!

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.