yes, in south africa.....

mixed race, and asian people where a third "racial category"....if I recal correctly.....they were in the middl eof the caste system used during apartheid and had mor erights than the Blacks but less than the whites.



I applaud you yogi for pulling the man aside and sharing your views about his choice of words...I don't know where he is from or where the two of you are now.....but you gave him the opportunity to explain why he used the term...

I've heard a fe people from England use the term, Oriental to describe people who we would call "Asian" here.....from what I've been told and informed, oriental is considered a derogratory term that was given by the west.....

When I brought up the fact that the rterm was considered offensive here...and that peole would make asumptions about person who used such an archaic term....dude explained to me that this is the term used in U.k. and that he wasn't aware of it being "negative" there....



So you gave the Pakistani man an opportunity to explain himself.....and for you toeducate him about how certain words are received.Always good to give a similiarly negative term that could be used to describe the person who said the word if he STILL doesn't get it.......