I Am Not Chinese!!!!

nadnad

well i'm from NORTHERN ireland emphasis on NORTHERN - get really peed off when people refer to Ireland - different country - different currency - different government - very different - I always say I'm Northern irish surely thats not difficult for people to grasp is it?!

BTW I was told once by a Chinese friend that the term Oriental was not politically correct - she said it wasn't a good term for people and she didn't appreciate it.

Wig

OP,

What you say is fine, but, from your list

Vietamese fine
Japanese fine
and the others fine except....
Hong Kong, AFAIK there is no official title such as Hong Konger or Hong Kongese. HK is certainly multi cultural/ethnic but the overwhelming majority are Chinese or Han Chinese, their language Cantonese is spoken in southern China.

So *if* you are from HK and your family is native to HK then I feel you are being pedantic, because like it or not your ethnicity is chinese.

I agree it is stupid and wrong to refer to a Vietnamese, Japanese, Korean, Thai or Laotian as "chinese" and it is something I don't do. I always ask where someone is from, and if that doesn't work (i.e they say I'm from London) I'll ask where their parents/grand parents are from.

SnowyOwl_2

nadnad wrote:

well i'm from NORTHERN ireland emphasis on NORTHERN - get really peed off when people refer to Ireland - different country - different currency - different government - very different - I always say I'm Northern irish surely thats not difficult for people to grasp is it?!

Ha ha, try saying that in a pub in Newry on a Saturday night...

No answer required, tongue in cheek, know what you mean, joking, don't take offence...OK?!!

Poppy9

Queenie wrote:

:rotfl: :rotfl: Gonna miss ya! ((Poppy))

OMG where am I going? I don't have to leave Wales do I mon? Not sending me down to London on that big thing that goes choo choo :eek:

jockettuk

skintscotsman wrote:

I get annoyed when English people try to do cringeworthy impersonation of my Scottish accent - wasn't even funny the first time!!!

or the 5th time or the 20th time and we dont all go saying jimmy every minute.

Ive come to the belief that all the irish jokes abt them being thick and the scottish jokes abt them being tight was started by a thick tightfisted englishman.

IvanOpinion

Chaching
You are definitely not going to like DWs grandmother then ... she used to be very polite and talk about people from the far east as 'oriental' but her brain was never quite with it because she kept talking about 'the ornamentals' .. don't be offended she also talked about her 'ulsters', thought the army was full of 'shoulders' and she was 'registrated' blind.

The only issue I have is that 'oriental' may be todays PC word but tomorrow that may change to something else. We just can't keep up ... whats wrong with the generic term 'earthling'.

Ivan

skylight

IvanOpinion wrote:

The only issue I have is that 'oriental' may be todays PC word but tomorrow that may change to something else. We just can't keep up ... whats wrong with the generic term 'earthling'.

Ivan

Because Earthling is detrimental to the other more highly inteligent species in our galaxy. We wouldn't want them to be upset by other distant galaxys mistakenly refering to all species in ours as Earthlings now, would we????? :rotfl:

davidcampbell

Ive come to the belief that all the irish jokes abt them being thick and the scottish jokes abt them being tight was started by a thick tightfisted englishman.

:rotfl: brilliant

Poppy9

Ivan

What did DW grannie say about Organisms on the beach then

VickyA_2

My dad is a farmer, so people always immitate him as if he has a west country accent. Erm, he's actually Lincolnshire born and bred (along with the generations before him) and doesn't speak with a west country accent. Nor do any of his other farming friends in Lincolnshire. Strange that...............