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[Jonathan Lighter]

You are the wry one, aren't you, Wilson?

Such nonsense that forty years later, the news channels vastly prefer
"East Asian."


JL

On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 1:38 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 4:55 PM, Mullins, Bill CIV (US) <
> william.d.mullins18.civ at mail.mil> wrote:
>
>> "Oriental" is Occident-centric, i.e., racist.  Why? Because East Asian
>> cultures differ considerably and cannot be  lumped together.
>>
>
> That's nonsense. Of course, it's not meant to be serious, right? I've
> merely misunderstood.
>
>
> --
> -Wilson
> -----
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> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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