Here’s the wiki on the term ‘Orient’:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orient
I still haven’t figured out what about the term has “deep and demeaning historical roots” - one could say the same, and they probably eventually will, of the term ‘Asian’ or ‘South Asian’- those terms don’t “describe ethnic origin, background or even race” either.
This is just a lot of small-minded ‘hooey’.
(As I said in a previous thread on this issue, a whole RUG companies, are going to have to change their names ;-)
-JT
A lot of Chinese restaurants will have to change their names, too. :-)