Mom: You should’ve seen this cute Chinaman that I saw the other day.
Daughter: Ma, you can’t say Chinaman. No one says that anymore.
Mom: What? Well, what am I supposed to say?
Daughter: I dunno. Asian.
Mom: GEISHAN? Oh, come on now.
Daughter: Aaaaasian.
Mom: Well, what’s wrong with Chinaman?
Daughter: It’s like Negro. No one says that anymore.
Mom: Since when don’t people say Negro?
Daughter: Oh, a long time, Ma.
Mom: Well, what am I supposed to call them, then?
Daughter: Black or African American, I think.
Mom: African American? They get TWO names?
Daughter: Yes, Ma.
Mom: Two names. What Am I then?
Daughter: You’re still white, Ma.
[Indian waiter delivers food and walks off]
Mom: Is he a Geishan? Because he looks black to me.
Daughter: Oh, dear lord.
I am doing my best to resist making a Big Lebowski joke here.
Oh Dear God! I hope this was an elderly woman.
I think the preferred term is “senior”. 😉
Or “person of age”
I have been after my grandmother to stop using racist words for years. The biggest being the “N” word. She told me recently that she stopped using that word for me. Now she says colored. *head desk*