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8. Some rugs are Oriental. Some food is Oriental. No people are Oriental.

Mon Sep 4, 2017, 11:06 AM

Sep 2017

Some people are Asian.

Not Asian myself, but I tend to listen. Watched a Vegas dealer get very gently shamed for using that phrase.

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