Comments on: Tanabata Matsuri in São Paulo

By: Tony

Tony — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:08:25 +0000

Thanks a lot for your comments and compliments, Gringo. Regarding the use of “Asian”, it might well be that I learned English in the UK (where I lived for 7 years). In the UK Asian is used to refer specifically to people from the Indian subcontinent (India, Pakistan or Bangladesh). It is for that reason that I avoided using Asian here, as well as the fact that it is far too vague (there are no Thais or Vietnamese in the Liberdade neighbourhood). I have done some research and apparently “Oriental” has no pejorative connotations in British English either.

But I definitely take your point about the pejorative nature of Oriental in the States. I’ve also done some research and realized it is an issue. I’m going to reword the entry to avoid causing offence to US readers.

Once again, thanks a lot for your valuable contribution.

By: Gringo from US

Gringo from US — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:58:38 +0000

Tony,

Kudos on the design and layout of your site. Probably the cleanest and easiest to use of all English language Brazil sites.

Btw, when talking about Japanese, Chinese, Korean…anyone from Asia, the proper term to use is “Asian”, ex. “Asian Brazilian” or “Nippo Brasilian”, not oriental. Oriental is the wording to describe a rug, piece of furniture.

There’s a deep pejorative connotation calling a person “Oriental”. “Oriental” is associated with european colonialism in Asia and racial segregration policies in North and S. America.

Simply put, its as if somone called a Spanish descended person “spic”, “wetback”, “beaner” or “white trash”.

Cheers.

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By: Tony

Tony — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 22:16:24 +0000

Prezado Neimar, muito obrigado pelos seus comentários, quê pena que você não ficou sabendo do Tanabata. Fica para o próximo ano!

By: Neimar Alves Guerra

Neimar Alves Guerra — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 14:39:31 +0000

How come?
I live at Liberdade neighborhood and I didn’t know about this festival and I missed it.
By the pictures I could notice it was amazing and next year I wont miss it again.
I would like also to say that I’m huge fan of your blog and I read all your posts.
As Brazilian I have to thank you to spread information about my country and culture around the world.
Congratulations and keep doing this nice blog.