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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GreyLord" data-source="post: 8760985" data-attributes="member: 4348">They used the word Oriental in their marketing materials, a word which offends many Americans, particularly young Asian-Americans in some groups and White Americans who sympathize with them.  In the Americas (and some in Europe) it is considered offensive to use the term and it is preferable for writers to use either a more specific connotation today (such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, etc) or a more generic broad usage (such as Asian, though that ALSO is a problematic term because it can be offensive to MANY various cultural groups in Europe and areas connected to Europe as they feel it is too broad a term when talking about the MANY different cultural and racial groups that are actually found in Asia from the Russians and Arabs to the Afghans and Indians to the Mongolians, Chinese and Japanese...etc). They stated they had utilized East Asians (or Asians) in reading over the materials (but, as the word Oriental is NOT offensive to most who are actually Japanese, Chinese, Korean, or others who are actually FROM East Asia [as in those who are born into those nations, are from those races, and still live there currently], it is understandable why they may have missed this item), but obviously their readers did not catch this item.They writers admitted to their mistake, removed the word oriental from the materials and apologized for it. It may be that some question the writers sincerity and motives and how truthful they are in relating the information. I could go further in detail, but it would probably just cause a bunch of turmoil on this site which is unnecessary.</blockquote>

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