But you would call them both "Eastern European". Likewise, I'm both British and English despite being of Welsh and Scots heritage.
So the catch-all phrase for all Chinese, Taiwanese, Philippine, Thai, Vietnamese, Laotian, etc etc is "South East Asian"? Yeah, suppose that's as accurate as you can get! Covers as much as "oriental" is intended to anyway.
I still don't get why one word can be classes ad offensive, but I'm sure there are historic reasons of which I'm not aware.
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Date: 2011-01-06 01:08 pm (UTC)So the catch-all phrase for all Chinese, Taiwanese, Philippine, Thai, Vietnamese, Laotian, etc etc is "South East Asian"? Yeah, suppose that's as accurate as you can get! Covers as much as "oriental" is intended to anyway.
I still don't get why one word can be classes ad offensive, but I'm sure there are historic reasons of which I'm not aware.