Why is "Chinaman" derogatory, but "Englishman", "Scotsman", "Irishman", "Welshman", "Dutchman" not?

**Teutone** · 08-10-2018, 02:42 PM

Racism against asians is qouite funny because they never act butthurt and are racist towards us too

I call this a good relationship between 2 advanced human races

**Dandelion** · 08-10-2018, 02:43 PM

Originally Posted by Mingle

"Chineses" doesn't make sense so you have to take the long route and say "Chinese people" when addressing it in plural form.

Chineses is how GiCa calls them in her superior form of English. She usually does it while objectifying Chinese men.

**Mingle** · 08-10-2018, 04:20 PM

Originally Posted by Richmondbread

I always use the term Oriental. Asian is hyper corrective, and also too broad. If you're talking about Chinese, Japanese, and Burmese, etc. They are people of the Orient.

I've heard that the term Oriental is also considered offensive nowadays. I agree though that its a much better term than 'Asian'.

**Gründig** · 08-10-2018, 04:23 PM

It's only offensive if you're a sensitive ass Pussy bitch

**porkbbq** · 08-10-2018, 04:25 PM

The only people who are offended by such things are brown people, and white people who drink Soy Milk.

**Thambi** · 08-10-2018, 04:28 PM

Chinaman is not a widely used term so people would just take it as an unusual offensive term since they are not used to hearing that I guess.

I think chinese or at most asian would suffice in order to refer to a chinese individual. Other than in UK, asian indicates chinese/japanese/korean in rest of the world anyways.

**Dandelion** · 08-10-2018, 04:30 PM

In my opinion Chinaman is a slightly pejorative word for Chinese which can be used as insult, banter or in poetry. Context is the most important. A confident person sees this context.

**Westbrook** · 08-10-2018, 04:31 PM

Originally Posted by Bobby Martnen

The Japanese brought the hate upon themselves by bombing us for no reason whatsoever.

They had reasons

**Smitty** · 08-11-2018, 05:51 AM

Originally Posted by Danielion

Even 'oriental' is considered derogatory in the USA. What an odd culture. In the UK it's still 'Oriental' as 'Asian' there means 'South Asian'.

Anyway, to me Chinaman also sounds pejorative, but given the right informal context and history with a Chinese person I still use it. Taiji himself uses it even. Context of course.

Oriental is only mildly derogatory. And can't you guess why? It's Eurocentric. Only a person who hasn't been sufficiently globalized and deracialized would see Asia as being to the east. Anyway, this one hasn't fully died out yet.