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DearAmbellina2113 · 41-45, F
Yes.
I was 17 and I lived in the same tiny rural town I was born in. I had never been anywhere outside Tennessee or met anyone who wasn't white or black.
A childhood friend of mine had moved to California and when she came back to Tennessee to visit, she brought her dorm roommate from Berkley.
When we were all hanging out and talking, I used the word 'Oriental' instead of 'Asian' in conversation when the topic of local ethnicities came up. That girl from Berkley jumped my shit, calling me a racist for using that term.
I apologized and felt so bad, because I genuinely had never been taught that that was seen as a derogatory term. 😓😓😓 I felt like a stupid hick. Never used that word again either.🤐
I was 17 and I lived in the same tiny rural town I was born in. I had never been anywhere outside Tennessee or met anyone who wasn't white or black.
A childhood friend of mine had moved to California and when she came back to Tennessee to visit, she brought her dorm roommate from Berkley.
When we were all hanging out and talking, I used the word 'Oriental' instead of 'Asian' in conversation when the topic of local ethnicities came up. That girl from Berkley jumped my shit, calling me a racist for using that term.
I apologized and felt so bad, because I genuinely had never been taught that that was seen as a derogatory term. 😓😓😓 I felt like a stupid hick. Never used that word again either.🤐
