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In reply to the discussion: 'Political correctness' used to be known as 'good manners' [View all]Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)56. Occidental is an insurance company.
Yes, I know that oriental can include a large area that includes the middle east and other areas. I think of furniture as being far east, and rugs. But oriental spices to me has included the middle east and other areas. The Europeans used to trade to get the coveted spices from different areas east and maybe south of Europe.
Then there are the three wise men supposedly from the east, in the Bible. Those men are sometimes depicted as being of different races, with one frequently looking Af. American.
The Orient Express went to Turkey and Greece, not China.
The Middle East had exotic spices to trade with the west.
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It's just funny though, we've got "holier than thou" types everywhere on the right
ck4829
Jun 2019
#51
For one thing, the term Oriental is too broad, as it applies to the Middle East as well as Asia.
Nitram
Jun 2019
#10
No, you are wrong. It is a historical term for the East, not just Asia. Turkey was part of the
Nitram
Jun 2019
#57
Yes, but they are not "Asian." The 2000 and 2010 U.S. Census Bureau definition of the Asian is:
Nitram
Jun 2019
#58