Talk:East Asians in the United Kingdom

message: Southeast Asians should have their own article.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.92.26.237 (talk) 20:59, 23 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: East Asians are not Southeast Asians

message: The flags in the "regions with significant population" section of the infobox are quite inappropriate.  NONE of the British Orientals reside in the countries mentioned.  They live in Great Britain!  Also, the use of a country's flag to indicate their origins is inappropriate and can be offensive.  That country might not exist when their ancestors moved to Great Britain or they fled the country because they did not want to live under that flag in the first place!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by DHN (talk • contribs) 03:07, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flags and regions with significant populations 

message: The article says "the term 'British Oriental' is rarely if ever used". OK... so why give the article this title? Is it a made-up term? Is there a term that is actually used? Cop 663 (talk) 18:31, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It's an attempt by Wikipedians to classify that which is not usually classified in order to make an article. East Asian is sometimes used but it's not much more common. Groups are usually referred to by their individual ethnicity ((British) Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Thai, etc), or simply as (other) Asian. The 2011 census is proposing to include Chinese and other Asians within the Asian category. -- zzuuzz (talk) 19:41, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That's what I suspected. Google suggests the term is used occasionally although the examples I saw all seemed to post-date the creation of this article... (also there's a breed of cat with the same name!) Is there a name we could use that doesn't impose a rarely-used term? East Asian people in the United Kingdom? British people with ancestry in the Far East? Cop 663 (talk) 20:20, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I moved it to East Asian people in Britain which is more neutral, as it isn't trying to enforce a name onto a group that doesn't seem to have one. Cop 663 (talk) 11:36, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

text:  'Asian' is being used for any group that resides in Asia. I think the terms 'Oriental', 'Chinese' and 'East Asian', are the most commonly accepted terms for 'Asians'. The term 'Asians' gets used for East Asians, but only when given context; British Asians still means Indians, but "There were so many Asians in London for the Olympics!" can be easily used to mean East Asians, however "There are so many Asians at Imperial!" could mean either races...TimothyBaker2 (talk) 08:03, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  What are 'British Orientals' really called? 

message: I just want to make this statement. I don't really have sources, but I've used the term Oriental several times in a non-offensive way, and had it accepted by all East Asians residing in the UK.
I think the idea that some East Asians find the term "Oriental" should be removed as it isn't commonplace in British culture. I only ever restrict usage of "Oriental" when I'm talking to an American or an Americanised country (Canada, South America). In the Europe, Middle East, South Asia, and East Asia, I think the term Oriental isn't considered offensive.
TimothyBaker2 (talk) 07:56, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I have certainly heard this term used myself in the UK, but it's certainly seen as offensive by some. Personally, I've never used it and have always assumed that it's as offensive in the UK as it is in the US, although searching online suggests that there is more agreement on it being offensive in the US. This article by Peter Aspinall states that "'Oriental', too, is not a self-description used by peoples from East Asia, scarcely ever occurring as a label of choice when self-ascribed, open-response ethnic group data are collected. It is also regarded as offensive when used by an observer to describe someone with origins in this area". He does also note that it is still used, however. Cordless Larry (talk) 08:52, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  The term Oriental is not considered offensive outside the USA 

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