"Ernest Schaal" <eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote in message
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> in article 2qd65oFtltpaU1@uni-berlin.de, Ryan Ginstrom at ryang@gol.com
> wrote on 9/10/04 5:15 PM:
>
> >
> > "necoandjeff" <spam@schrepfer.com> wrote in message
> > news:c8d0d.13834$QJ3.4414@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com...
> >> "Kevin Gowen" <kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com> wrote in message
> >>> I never understood the big deal about "oriental", either. Neither does
> >>> my oriental wife.
> >>
> >> All depends on where you are (back to my point about words and meaning
and
> >> collectives). Here in San Francisco (or LA for that matter) if you were
to
> >> refer to Asians as "Orientals" you would sound like some uneducated
hick
> >> from the Midwest.
> >
> > Or from Florida, as the case may be.
> >
> > Do the Brits still refer to Iraqis as orientals?
>
> My eldest daughter tells me that food is oriental, not people.

The way I heard it, rugs are oriental, people are Asian.