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Originally Posted by calmtigers
If you would like me to be politically correct, "of South East Asian Decent" I am indian myself and refer to other "SEA" people as brown.
No attempt at offense or concept of race. Rather ethnicity.
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I frequently beat my head against the wall trying to get it into my teenager's head how important the correct choice of words is, along with spelling those words correctly. This would be an object lesson in that.
Because you typed "Decent" when you meant "Descent", those not fortunate enough to be "SEA" could interpret your statement as the only people of good quality are South East Asian should they choose to do so.
I'm sure you meant "descent" as in "ancestry" and am not offended in the slightest, but it is interesting how one missing letter can completely change the meaning/tone of a statement.
Unless that was a Freudian slip?
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