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<p>I guess it’s like the n-word where its connotation is dependent upon the ethnicity of the person using it–not that I agree with that–or the way in which it’s used. It is just a color like black or white, but these things take on different meanings as time progresses. To use an African-American example again, about 60 years ago, the term negro wasn’t offensive, but now it’s viewed much differently, even though it’s just the Spanish word for black. </p>
<p>Yellow is also just a color, but many Asian people take offense to the term being used to label them. There were allegations of an ad for a TV being racist because the advertisement was used primarily to promote the fact that the TV used yellow in its color scheme, as opposed to the typical format, and it just so happened that they got an Eastern Asian guy to play the scientist in the commercial. There was also another incident down here in GA where the yellow line of MARTA–our metro train system–had to be changed to the gold line because it coincidentally (or maybe not) ended at an area primarily populated by Asians.</p>
<p>It’s cool though. Sorry for that misunderstanding.</p>
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<p>wow, I guess it is pretty loose. I knew it could refer to South Asians, but I didn’t realize it was such an ambiguous term. The article does list Mexicans though, and that seems to be the new group of people who are associated with it in this country, during this age of debates about immigration reform.</p>