Corey Richardson wrote:
>
> On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:51:23 -0700 (PDT), aem >
> wrote:
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> >Just curious....is "Oriental" still widely used in the U.K., rather
> >than "asian"? Does it still connote something exotic? -aem
>
> AFAIC, "Oriental" means Chinese/Japanese and "Asian" is
> Indian/Pakistani.

In the UK, "Europe" begins on the other side
of the English channel. But in the US,
we consider the UK to be part of Europe.
So we aren't likely to look to them for
geography lessons.