Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 05:47 PM 9/21/03 -0700, Eric Welch wrote: >Not really. A lot of Asians take great offense at being called >Orientals. Eric I have never heard this before and it rather puzzles me. The term is an old one, dating back to the Mediterranian bias of the Roman Empire. From the Roman perspective, the World was roughly divided into the Occident (the lands of the setting sun) and the Orient (the lands of the rising sun). Whyever would this be racist? The Orient, as time went on, became subdivided into the Near East, South-West Asia, India, South-East Asia, and the Far East. I'll have to ask my Oriental friends about this. Perhaps they would rather be called Far Eastians? Marc msmall@infionline.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir! - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html