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I grew up in Orange County California near Little Saigon. I recall someone saying that carpets are Oriental and people are Asian. That has stuck with me all these years because I never refer to Asians as Oriental. I now work with a Korean American. His father is white and mother is Korean. He grew up in a small town in the Midwest. Although, he speaks no Korean, he eats Korean food and has been to Korea many times. The problem? He refers to himself as Oriental or white (the latter being odd since he clearly looks Asian). Is it Asian or Oriental?

Oriental can refer to anyone or anything from Eastern Asia. It literally means "east". This would include all ethnic natives of Japan, Philippines, Indonesia, Korea, China, etc. It is absurd to refer to someone as "Asian" in order to identify him or her racially because a person from Asia could be white, Hindu or Oriental.
Identifying someone's race is necessary when the police or someone is describing a given individual. To call him Asian doesn't make any sense because of the reality that Asians can be any of several races. Would we call a white Russian Asian? How about a Turk or an Israeli? It tells us nothing of their ethnicity though they are from Asia. It must be specific. In those circumstances, especially, hypersensitivity and the "politically correct" pseudo-police have no place.

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