Funny you mentioned 'Oriental'. I watched the Bruce Lee 30 for 30 yesterday
and they addressed this. According to that show, which had a segment showing Asians rallying to change from being called "Oriental" to "Asian", the word "Oriental" means "East". And their claim was that they didn't like their race being a relative to some other group, who presumably was the reference here. They wanted their race to be named independently to anyone else.
I thought that was interesting, and it was something I hadn't heard before.
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Posted: 07/09/2020 at 12:42PM