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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 8024472" data-attributes="member: 7023840">This is getting a little sideways, since it is very difficult for me to understand how someone does not know, today, that this term isn't proper to use (at least, not in America). If used as a pure descriptor of location (Oriental, Occidental), then it is acceptable. But not for people.Here's a quick explanation from 2009:[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112465167[/URL]In 2016, it was removed from use in any and all federal law. You can additionally find numerous examples of people with Asian ancestry taking offense to the term, both because it lumps numerous different people under one umbrella, because it "others" people, because it has a stigma of "exoticism," and because it has been used in unsavory ways in the past; in short, while it has more pleasant connotations than some other words, it still causes offense for multiple reasons.Again, in order to avoid thread derailment and lockdown, I advise using google. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />EDIT- to be clear, this isn't directed at the person I am responding to, but to the person just asking questions.</blockquote>