Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/22

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Oriental Asians
From: doug kim <yup@pacbell.net>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 15:08:55 -0700

to add the final clarification on this:

oriental and occidental refer to things, actual objects: oriental rugs,
cooking, antiques, etc.

asian refer to people. but i do call all my white friends occidentals.

doug

On 9/22/03 2:03 PM, "Marc James Small" <msmall@infionline.net> wrote:

> 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!
> 
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