This is not a new term in the UK.
If some news outlet in the US starts doing this, they need to be put in their place rapidly and decisively.
I agree! It is just political correctness run amok. I wonder how the Asian groups feel when their crime stats go up and people assume they (as a race) were responsible for such acts?
Technically, Pakistan, et.al. are in Asia. So is all of Russia.
It’s not geographically incorrect!
Interestingly, I was just thinking of this. I was driving and saw a delivery truck with “Purveyors of Fine Oriental Foods” on the side. It made me wonder why we don’t still call Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, etc...Oriental any more. There are quite a few diverse countries located in Asia, after all!