Nithya Sambasivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I believe it has become largely obsolete, not because it is offensive, >> but because other terms of the same era are now considered offensive.
> Probably how "Oriental" is now considered offensive..? There are other contemporaneous terms. I'm so well socialized that I can't bring myself to type one of them. Such things come and go, of course. There's a constant ebb and flow of what terms are considered polite and which are offensive. Perry
