Whore of the Orient branded a "disgrace to Chinese culture"

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Whore of the Orient, the next game from some of the people who made LA Noire, has been branded an "attempt to disgrace Chinese culture, history and traditions".
City of Monash councillor Jieh-Yung Lo, who is unhappy at the title of the game, plans to take Kennedy Miller Mitchell to the Human Rights Commission on the grounds of racial vilification, Australian website The Age reports.
"It's the use of the word 'Orient', more even than the word 'whore', that is the issue," Lo said. "The O-word is very similar to the N-word for African-American communities. It's a 19th century racial-colonial conception and it's especially painful for older people in the communities. That was a very bad time in China, and people don't want or need to have that dragged up."
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