Asian = Oriental, etc.

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Thu Feb 8 15:38:52 UTC 2001


At 11:20 PM -0500 2/8/01, Beverly Flanigan wrote:
>But why Guinea? to match Bermuda shorts? (another passe' term, I suppose)

yet another slur for 'Italian', the presumed ethnicity of the
prototype wearer of the garment



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