Don’t use the word ‘Oriental’ to describe those from China or South-East Asia in race-hate crime reports, UK police are told.
Police have been told to stop describing people from China and South East Asia as ‘Oriental’ in race-hate crime reports.
New guidance issued by the Home Office excludes the term from a list of categories that are now only allowed to be used.
An embarrassing idiot from the Home Office said: ‘This term is now considered offensive.’
Labour’s Sarah Owen – the first female MP of Chinese descent and chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Hate Crime – said it is ‘incredibly outdated’.
But Eddie Chan, 67, who set up the London Chinese Community Network, said the word ‘describes where we come from and I do not find it offensive’.
And nor does anybody else.
Perhaps Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express will be next in the firing line.
