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MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY CCDC AVMC (USA)
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> In any case, Edward Said's _Orientalism_ (1978) was the biggest nail in the
> coffin and lexical re-orientation was de rigueur.
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> For people with degrees anyhow.
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Oh, I have a degree - Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. But the standard mnemonic for color codes on resistors was taught to us with a straight face ("Black boys rape our young girls but Violet gives willingly" -- black, brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, grey, white)), so whether or not "oriental" was offensive was completely off the radar.
(Wikipedia has a number of mnemonics which are not so racist or sexist, but are also much less memorable.)
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