[Rusty0604]

My mother always used the term oriental so I did also. I just found out a few years ago it was racist. Hard to keep up.

[KarlInOhio]

Don't worry. In a few years refering to people with epicanthic folds by their eyes as Asian will be just as racist and a new term will be the official term to use. Maybe after a few roations it will become "people of the Orient" like "colored people" became "people of color" for the term of the year for blacks.

Asia is just too big of continent with too many cultures to use Asian as a code word for one section of it. Even Orwell had to split Eurasia from Eastasia (which we have always been at war with).