On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 20:19:38 GMT, B A R R Y wrote:

How does "Oriental" offend, but not "Asian"?

IMHO Oriental is tended to address more or less the Arabic region (whatever
you think about what the correct geographic region should be), as Asian
more or less addresses the more eastern region. There might be some issues
for Asians to be mixed up with Orientals.

#m
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