In your opinion, is the term "chinaman" extremely offensive?

In your opinion, is the term "chinaman" extremely offensive?
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answer:I’m not Chinese, but to me, it rings about the same level of archaic and offensive as “Negro.” It’s a term from another era. If used for a Chinese-American, it is racist in the sense that it suggests that someone descended from Chinese immigrants is eternally different from “normal” Americans of Scotch/English/etc. descent… I find it particularly messed up when people use it to refer to all people who look like they might be descended from… anywhere in East Asia. “Oriental” is used along the same lines.
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