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Why is it offensive to refer to all Asian people as 'Chinese'?

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As a purely factual matter, it is not offensive to call a group of people or things by the label that applies to a subset of that group --it's just wrong(e.g. calling all "fruits", "apples" is not offensive in of itself). Obviously, calling all Asian people "Chinese" is similarly factually incorrect, and is not, I would argue, inherently offensive. read more

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