It's because you are not supposed to say "chinese" -- "Asian" is the correct term.
Funny story: My SIL tutors freshman football players at a large university. She is sorta "mom" to a lot of them, she has 4 boys of her own so these guys are just extended family in a lot of ways for her. Many of them have very little experience in social aspects (for instance, she helps them select clothes to wear to publicity events and such -- khakis and polo shirts are new territory for them). One of them (a very large young African American gentleman from a small town in some backwoods part of the state) comes to her one day all upset. He tells her he was riding the escalator somewhere and sees this "Chinese dude" coming the other way, so he asks him out of the blue, in passing, for some reason never made clear, "How do you say 'ugly' in Chinese?" So the football player says the guy looks at him "funny" and says, "I don't know, I'm not Chinese. How do you say 'stupid' in African?" . The football player was upset, "He's a racist! He shouldn't be saying things like that!" So then she, unsuccessfully, attempted to explain to this young gentleman why the whole thing was sorta racist and offensive, but he was not buying it. She also has to try to help them get edumacated, but that is a whole nuther set of stories. --R Gary Hurst wrote: > yeah, i catch hell when i say "bet that car is being driven by a chinese > woman on a cellphone". when i am right, she still will not give me credit > for it :( > > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
