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My parents always told me I was an Occident, but that’s not what I thought they meant
Only orientals get called "Asian". Indians and ME don't get called Asian.In the UK we still use oriental.
Asian is for Indians/Pakistanis/Middle East
Oriental for Chinese, Japanese etc
Theres an Oriental Society at my University, that's their official title
Do you guys in the US call Indians Asian as well?
In the UK we still use oriental.
Asian is for Indians/Pakistanis/Middle East
Oriental for Chinese, Japanese etc
Theres an Oriental Society at my University, that's their official title
Do you guys in the US call Indians Asian as well?
Go read Edward Said's "Orientalism", a classic in Post Colonial literature. It is the beginning of the term falling into disfavor in academics. Basically it discusses that the term "Oriental" as a western concept to describe "exoticism" of the non western "Other".
It's been a long time since Oriental was considered derogatory. It's not a new thing.Traditionally speaking, there was the Occident and the Orient. Occidental people, and Oriental people.
But somewhere along the line, it became no longer socially acceptable to refer to someone from the Orient as "Oriental." They must instead be referred to as Asian.
Asian = from Asia.
Oriental = from the Orient.
It's just too ways of saying the same fucking thing.
Not too long ago I saw an SJW type lose their shit because they saw a white person call an Asian person "Oriental." She acted like it was a fucking racial slur or something.
Do you guys in the US call Indians Asian as well?
Shut up, honkey!
I think people are just looking to offended.
I'm 13% victim!