Well you didn't bother to find out

I'd really people not use Oriental, but I don't take offense. But there is the weight of history in Oriental, but I don't think it's pejorative the way people use it - I mean if people were being anti-Asian they'd use chink/gook/slope - words that you spit out. Oriental is just old fashioned.

Michael: Um, let me ask you, is there a term besides Mexican that you prefer? Something less offensive?
Oscar: Mexican isn't offensive.

Well no one in Asia finds it offensive because they don't have to deal with the weight of history of being treated with racism - also because no one here speaks English as a first language.

Well you could say "Dennis"

Offense? Speaking from my own POV, I don't know if offense is the right word. Mild annoyance maybe.

I am not. I am but a suburban Chinese American who grew up in a 30% Mexican town.

That last sentence totally checks out.

If i read it correctly, it reads like he's conflating the symptoms (class barriers) with the causes (class barriers are causing unrest vs. there's a structural system in place which makes upward mobility really a difficult thing beyond just the money/education)

It's exclusionary AF in it's current state, but if they could have this sort of teaching across all income levels and all schools I'd be for it.

He literally could have cut and pasted The Wire Season 4, Episode 9 where Bunny take Namond to eat at Ruth's Chris in place of his column and called it a day.

Kogi Taco in LA is amazing. But I think that Chinese Mexican food in Mexicali is like 1950s era Chinese food + Jalapenos and Cholula.

My list of first against the wall is SUPER LONG tho.

Is there a term besides "Mexican" that you prefer? Something less offensive?

I sing this every so often. If a woman responds appropriately, I ask to date her.

There was this amazing article about Chinese-mexican food from towns with large amounts of Chinese immigrants like Mexicali along the California/Mexican border. But then Eddie Huang went for Vice and said the food tasted terrible, and thus, my dream was shattered.

Interestingly all of the kids at my local Taco Bell are Russian. I discovered this about 2 years ago, going in, and I thought "huh, that's weird, I haven't seen so many such freshly scrubbed white blond(e) teens working at Taco Bell in decades. And they were all Russian - like very recent immigrants with strong…

I will get called Chino until the end of time.

I don't live in the US so I was unaware of just how deep the Harambe memeing was - then I was on vacation in Sydney last August and this group of Australian bros had taken over the train after a sporting event got about 30 people chanting "DICKS OUT FOR HARAMBE"

I only said that piece of fish was good enough for Jehovah!