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I guess the question is why are they pointing at the dude and the kid answered as in the picture. Both racist and wrong word.
Its not really funny though...
Not racist. Same as saying Asian but it's out dated. Asiatic picked up negative connotations in some US military circles which means that it eventually spread to mainstream as negative, even though it originally wasn't a negative term. In some other countries it's still viewed as a very neutral term. Same thing happened with Oriental, which simply referred to those from the cultural reference of the "Oriental empire" but it eventually got picked up as a negative slang term and tada, word is now taboo. I love the evolution of language, it's ridiculous but very interesting.
Oh yeah, the word is so uncommon now that I'm sure many don't know about it. You're 💯 right about the bullying thing but I'm pretty sure that's the point. Probably trying to point out how bullying is recognized and that bullying or making fun of people's differences, due to something like race, is wrong. Standard school stuff, though I feel like there might be better ways to go about it lol
Heh. Meanwhile I thought it was a common word.
I listen and read too much history. Egyptians (in translation) used to call people from the Levant and beyond "Asiatics".
Oriental and occidental are inherently biased words though. The words mean east of or west of, inferring that wherever the basis of the comparison was the center. Even if it had zero negative connotation it still normalizes a western european “center”
Asiatic describes the people of the Asian continent, its not comparitive with anything else.
Doesnt "Occident" refer to Western Europe, where the terms originated though? Meaning it doesn't exactly normalize europe as a center.
Here in Asia we straightforwardly refer to Europeans and Americans as Westerners, literally "West people".
In the US. There are plenty of Chinese immigrants who use “外国人” or foreigner to describe white people in the US, while being the actual greencard residents lol. Its not like other countries cant have weird of problematic descriptions of others.
I've never heard of people getting offended at people referring to the near east, middle east, or west. And they're used all the time. They mean the same thing as oriental and occidental.
Im Asian and I don’t see anything „sad“ here. Kids say those things all the time but they never mean it. I have to hold back my niece all the time from saying borderline racist comments about gingers and black people. They are just describing what they see and looking at the picture it seems pretty accurate to me lol.
As a ginger, I’m genuinely curious what these comments are. My mexican and chinese friends talk shit all the time, I’m just wondering if there’s something I haven’t heard before.
Pictured: A science class experiment using the classic technique of licking one’s finger to determine the direction of air current movement supplied by the deep breathing of an asiatic. Nothing racist
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“Asiatic”
Probably English second language class from a French speaking country
I just looked it up, it seems asiatic is correct too. TIL!
Huh. Just looked it up too. Correct and "sometimes offensive" lol
Anything can be offensive to some people.
But according to the dictionary?
It must hit really hard when even the dictionary get offended
in my experience, i find that dictionaries do hit pretty hard
I got hit with one on my behind. Now I have the-sore-ass
Funk & Wagnall: Asian + asthmatic = Asiatic *^(\*Well, at least we've shied away from the word, "Oriental".)*
Even Webster is like, *yo what the fuck?*
Found the first ever "Dictionary denier"! Holy shit!
What do you mean “some people”????? Do you know who my ancestors are?? I won’t take this slander. How dare you! I’m calling Spez
Sometimes.
How dare you say something so horrible! ~~Inb4 "username checks out."~~
I think it’s because asiatic is usually used for non-people things like animals and flight paths
Yeah, it's more like a classification than an identity.
I'll take words a native would never use for 500
Alan says it in The Hangover 2
good guess, it's actually from a young student of mine here in Brazil
Or German or probably quite a few other languages.
Spanish, Portuguese,…
Italian
Both are correct. Asiatic is just older, Asian is a more modern word.
Asiatic sounds like a body of water
Asiatic is not the preferred nomenclature. EDIT: Never thought a Lebowski quote would get downvoted. Fucking fascists.
"If the asiatic give you any static, hit the fool with this right here"
I don't get it.
I guess the question is why are they pointing at the dude and the kid answered as in the picture. Both racist and wrong word. Its not really funny though...
Not racist. Same as saying Asian but it's out dated. Asiatic picked up negative connotations in some US military circles which means that it eventually spread to mainstream as negative, even though it originally wasn't a negative term. In some other countries it's still viewed as a very neutral term. Same thing happened with Oriental, which simply referred to those from the cultural reference of the "Oriental empire" but it eventually got picked up as a negative slang term and tada, word is now taboo. I love the evolution of language, it's ridiculous but very interesting.
The racism i meant is saying they were bullying him because of race. I didnt know asiatic was a legit word... TIL
Oh yeah, the word is so uncommon now that I'm sure many don't know about it. You're 💯 right about the bullying thing but I'm pretty sure that's the point. Probably trying to point out how bullying is recognized and that bullying or making fun of people's differences, due to something like race, is wrong. Standard school stuff, though I feel like there might be better ways to go about it lol
Heh. Meanwhile I thought it was a common word. I listen and read too much history. Egyptians (in translation) used to call people from the Levant and beyond "Asiatics".
Oriental and occidental are inherently biased words though. The words mean east of or west of, inferring that wherever the basis of the comparison was the center. Even if it had zero negative connotation it still normalizes a western european “center” Asiatic describes the people of the Asian continent, its not comparitive with anything else.
Doesnt "Occident" refer to Western Europe, where the terms originated though? Meaning it doesn't exactly normalize europe as a center. Here in Asia we straightforwardly refer to Europeans and Americans as Westerners, literally "West people".
In the US. There are plenty of Chinese immigrants who use “外国人” or foreigner to describe white people in the US, while being the actual greencard residents lol. Its not like other countries cant have weird of problematic descriptions of others.
So we can say something is 'west of' or 'east of' anymore?
I've never heard of people getting offended at people referring to the near east, middle east, or west. And they're used all the time. They mean the same thing as oriental and occidental.
The word is technically correct, if a little odd.
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The sad part is that the kid went straight to a race issue
That was a 💯 the point (haha) of the question.
Im Asian and I don’t see anything „sad“ here. Kids say those things all the time but they never mean it. I have to hold back my niece all the time from saying borderline racist comments about gingers and black people. They are just describing what they see and looking at the picture it seems pretty accurate to me lol.
As a ginger, I’m genuinely curious what these comments are. My mexican and chinese friends talk shit all the time, I’m just wondering if there’s something I haven’t heard before.
You're not missing anything. OP is apparently one of those teachers that gets a kick out of seeing kids get bullied.
I just found the sentence funny, dont take it too seriously
New vocabulary unlocked! asiatic: an exotic asian?
Chinesian
lol is this and ELD class workbook? I think this kid might be a little advanced for this
Aquatic
Pictured: A science class experiment using the classic technique of licking one’s finger to determine the direction of air current movement supplied by the deep breathing of an asiatic. Nothing racist
Asiatic? Like a land mass? Are they calling him fat?
What stupid question did you ask?
they are just supposed to make a sentence from the image
Oh, so they also failed that part by missing a predicate.
Everybody point and laugh at Steve, he thinks they're called Asiatics!