Musashi <Miyamoto@Hosokawa.co.jp> wrote:

> Yes, I saw the movie Lawrence of Arabia and I am aware that in England at
> least "orient"  meant the "near east". 

It does? I thought it meant something like "everything east of Suez" in
Brit-speak. At least in the version I grew up speaking.

> The term WOG means Wiley Oriental Gentleman, no?

Westernised, not Wiley.

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