From: "Sean" <s.mcnerney@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Subject: Re: Sun's Religion?
Date: Saturday, March 15, 2008 12:44 PM
On Mar 15, 12:28 pm, remysun2...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> On Mar 15, 1:01 pm, "Sam" <swknte...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > I think "Oriental" is ok. I have a lot of Chinese/Japanese art in my
home
> > and if I were to buy a rug of the same style, it would be called an
> > "Oriental Rug". I wouldn't set out to purchase an Asian-style rug.
Why
> > does everything have to fit into some sort of political correctness?
>
> I think part of the reason is that the only thing that can be
> acceptably called Oriental is the rug. Such connotations are demeaning
> when applied to people. Second, its origins are the same Eurocentric
> culture that called Native Americans Indians and such. If I'm an
> Oriental, you're what, an Occident waiting to happen? Asian refers to
> the geography. Orient refers to a position relative to someone else.
> Much like a polka dot balloon, no one can claim to be at the center of
> it all.
>Besides, Orient (as in Orient Express) refers to the area that >we now
>call the Middle East.
You mean Far East?
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