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Is it acceptable to refer to someone of Asian decent as "oriental?"?

Asked by gunther (169points) August 17th, 2009

My parents use the word all the time and I cringe every time I hear it. I can’t imagine it is PC. But since I never hear the term come up anyplace else, I’m not sure how people feel about it.

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