--- Stone Gordonssen
<stonegordonssen@...> wrote:
> >Asian is different on account of it being the
> >adjective of a continent name. Like "European"
> or
>
> The choice of using "Asian" in opposition to
> "Oriental" in the USA is not
> continental - it's socially reactive.
Um. We may be talking about two different things.
I'm talking about capitalisation...
> Yet if a group of people take a label
> to identify themselves for
> social strength/unity, I will use the term they
> choose so long as it isn't
> intended to be offensive to others.
Same here. However, I capitalise it according to
my usage. I capitalise such a name when its
derived from a place name (like Asian), but will
not when it's a colour (like white).
Padraic.
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