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Didn't catch that one, GD- I don't think I've ever seen Scrubs.
It just seems to me that changing what's acceptable every decade and even then it's only acceptable to a certain percentage of the group being addressed.....well, it's confusing and frustrating and a lot of hard feelings happen unnecessarily. The gentleman I referred to is by all accounts a really nice guy and certainly meant no harm. He falls into the ignorant but probably not racist category, and I suspect a lot of others do as well. In his day (he's older) that was the accepted term. My MIL is always saying 'Oriental' instead of Asian, just out of habit and not due to any malicious intentions, because that's what was said the majority of her life.
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