I know several carpet/textile dealers whose business name includes Oriental, even tho the goods they market are from Armenian, Caucasian, Persian, or Turkish regions.
Tell it's "African American" and that the guy is an a-hole.
1. Not for a long time. In college in the mid 80s, one of the first books I read was called “orientalism” and was something of a critique of western views of the east.
I’ve told this one before, on my first job as a grocery clerk I had to learn the produce, and the central pa redneck who taught me said to remember that “COLORED people eat COLLARD greens”
Here in Arlington though, they won’t describe it when it is relevant (eg local crime report suspect descriptions)
Here in Arlington, honestly one of the coolest places to spend a morning is to go to the Eden plaza market which is the locus of Vietnamese settlement in the 80s. All kinds of veggies you don’t see, fish swimming in tanks, plucked ducks hanging in windows, etc.
No, those family members have pretty much died off at this point.
I don't know if you're being sarcastic but we have some openly racist users on here. Anything goes, which is why I mostly stopped posting. The Caitlin Clark threads and ones like this one are clarion calls for them to come out of the woodwork.
Tell me how it’s so different from Saying “cah” in Boston?
