26284, well "asian" is plainly less accurate
Posted by The Damaja, Fri Mar-04-05 12:50 PM
the whole point is that "oriental" goes much further to physically describing someone than "asian" does
the two words are not equivalent
and as to "what they accurately want to be called" - which IS political correctness as far as I'm aware - the reasons are baffling and the outcome creates problems
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