"Sean Holland" <seanholland@pants.telus.net> wrote in message
news:BD6F7CFF.1149E%seanholland@pants.telus.net...
> in article _Nh2d.3030$eu6.1057@newssvr15.news.prodigy.com, Musashi at
> Miyamoto@Hosokawa.co.jp wrote on 9/16/04 7:53 AM:
>
> >
> > "Sean Holland" <seanholland@pants.telus.net> wrote in message
> > news:BD6E24B3.11452%seanholland@pants.telus.net...
> >> in article K8Z1d.2756$cz7.1899@newssvr15.news.prodigy.com, Musashi at
> >> Miyamoto@Hosokawa.co.jp wrote on 9/15/04 8:24 AM:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> I am now playing with the idea that the term 東洋人 which was in use
up
> > to
> >>> WWII and immediately
> >>> thereafter has been replaced by アジア人 in 日本語 because "Oriental"
> > has
> >>> been replaced
> >>> by "Asian" in the English Language.
> >>>
> >>> musashi
> >>>
> >>
> >> The Japanese I know in Canada use 東洋人 quite frequently. There are
lots
> > of
> >> Asians of the Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, etc. persuasion around to
> > elicit
> >> the term. The many Indo-Canadians are referred to as インド人. The many
> >> Filipino folks and others from that section of the globe get 東南アジア
人.
> > I
> >> don't recall hearing just アジア人 much from the Japanese folks I know
> >> around here, but they may not be a representative sample: organic
farmers,
> >> Esperanto types, 靈氣 types and so on. No right wing bigots or
xenophobes,
> >> and maybe none that would fall comfortably into the category "normal."
> >>
> >
> > I addressed this point in another post. But I refer to your line..
> > "The Japanese I know in Canada use 東洋人 quite frequently"
> > Those Japanese are in Canada, not in Japan everyday where they would
become
> > aware
> > of changes in word usage in the Japanese language. Hence they retain
> > whatever they
> > "came over with" unless they go back to Japan and for some reason notice
> > that
> > a word they use (which was perfectly valid xx-years ago) is no longer in
> > vogue.
> >
> > Musashi
> >
> >
>
> Or perhaps they have become a little less insular and bit more worldly.
>

Yes, that's the other side of the coin.