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> According to whom Wikipedia gives a summary with respect to the American use of the word (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orient#American_English https://en.wi
by gugagore 10y ago
> According to whom
Wikipedia gives a summary with respect to the American use of the word (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orient#American_English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orient#American_English):
"John Kuo Wei Tchen, director of the Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program and Institute at New York University, said the basic critique of the term developed in U.S.A. in the 1970s. Tchen has said: "With the U.S.A. anti-war movement in the '60s and early '70s, many Asian Americans identified the term 'Oriental' with a Western process of racializing Asians as forever opposite 'others'."[10]"