>No... if I go to China, I don't expect anyone to be able to
>tell if I'm British, Irish, French, German, American,
>Australian, Scandinavian, Slavic, Russian...

thank you. lol the funny part about all this (and one of the main reasons i brought this all up) is the fact that, by choosing to replace "oriental" with "asian" those same people who think it's wrong to see the distinguishing similarities between those certain people...are...ummm....doing JUST THAT lol. just switching the word to another inadequate word. this is why it's so silly and absurd.