Traffic laws?

[bvibert]

After view this I'm thoroughly convinced that there are none in China.

http://jalopnik.com/5563003/video-34-chinese-car-accidents

It's a damn free for all apparently.

 

[wa-loaf]

no stop signs and lots of people riding bike with umbrellas.

ah and they are all DWA.

 

[ctenidae]

Seems like 95% of those could have been totally avoidable by paying a tiny bit of attention.

 

[RootDKJ]

So have you been to Jersey? :lol:

 

[Puck it]

no stop signs and lots of people riding bike with umbrellas.

ah and they are all DWA.

I thought it was DWO!!!!!:beer:

 

[wa-loaf]

I thought it was DWO!!!!!:beer:

Asian is more PC than Oriental ...

 

[ctenidae]

Asian is more PC than Oriental ...

Russians are Asian, too. Some of them, anyway.

 

[Puck it]

Asian is more PC than Oriental ...

Not really. Indians and some Arabs are Asians.

 

[wa-loaf]

Russians are Asian, too. Some of them, anyway.

PC and more inclusive! win win

 

[Puck it]

PC and more inclusive! win win

And why is oriental not PC. The area is the the Orient. When did that become derogatory and why?

 

[wa-loaf]

And why is oriental not PC. The area is the the Orient. When did that become derogatory and why?

Dude it hasn't been OK to say Oriental for like 20+ years.

According to Wikipedia:

In the United States, Ireland and Australasia (Australia and East
Asia), since approximately 1990 "Asian" has been considered a more
politically correct term for "Oriental", which previously referred to
people from China, Japan, and Korea and other East Asian countries.
This is partially due to the fact that the term "Orientalism" in
academia has become associated with the European colonial attitude
toward the Ottoman East.

 

[Puck it]

Dude it hasn't been OK to say Oriental for like 20+ years.

Okay, it is going back to the original meaning of the Orient. So the Turks and other people of that area are Oriental. What is not PC about it? Becuase it is referring to them as people of the Middle Asia.

 

[ctenidae]

I've decided to refer to all people in the Western Hemisphere as Occidentals, and those in the Eastern as Non-Occidentals.

 

[Puck it]

I've decided to refer to all people in the Western Hemisphere as Occidentals, and those in the Eastern as Non-Occidentals.

I read that in the link and have never heard of that term. I am offended by it. Please refrain from using that term!!!!!:dunce:

 

[ctenidae]

I read that in the link and have never heard of that term. I am offended by it. Please refrain from using that term!!!!!:dunce:

That's an attitude that is acceptable to septentrional culturals, but tends to confuse meridional folks.

 

[bvibert]

Russians are Asian, too. Some of them, anyway.

Speaking of Russians