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WCDT: 2296-2300 (15-19 October 2012) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
anahata:
--- Quote from: Madmartigan on 18 Oct 2012, 09:21 ---That depends if you associate those of Indian descent to be Asian, which is a sticky situation as I think they're, and I could be incredibly wrong, closer to Aryan descent than Asiatic ethnic groups.
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In the UK we certainly use the term "Asian" for anyone from India and surrounding countries. It's taken a while for me to get used to Americans saying "Asian" for what we'd call "oriental", e.g. from China, Japan, Vietnam or Korea.
Technically you may or may not be right about Aryan origins, but that's how we commonly use the words.
Aegir:
what's with the picture in panel 5 not having Emily's face in it, but having Emily's face in it in panel 6? if it's supposed to be a mirror, shouldn't it be the back of her head?
Skewbrow:
It is a different picture. Most likely a photo of Emily as a child/adolescent.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: anahata on 19 Oct 2012, 03:31 ---In the UK we certainly use the term "Asian" for anyone from India and surrounding countries.
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Every (inhabited) continent has people in it with a range of ethnicities, even before we look at the effect of modern travel. This is why the use of continental names as descriptions is rather pointless, and has the potential to give offence even before considering whether referring to people's ethnicity is appropriate at all.
In the case of "American", there is an unfortunate ambiguity, because it is conventionally used (by me, too) to mean "those from the United States of America" - in other words, the country name includes the continent name, and worse, the country is commonly referred to as "America". Perhaps I should start to follow the usage of "USians", or "USAians", but those are really very clumsy.
It just occurred to me that saying that America is in North America is a bit like saying that the whole is contained in the part!
WAYF:
I dub thee:
TANNELORE.
(I am so sorry...)
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