Can describe EITHER people or things as being from Asia. Many Americans will heatedly argue that only objects are oriental, and to call a person an oriental is now considered racist. They tell you to call them Asian or, if applicable, Asian American. But what most Americans don't know is that in the UK a person from East Asia is considered oriental, and South Asians are the ones designated as Asian. It's a relative term.
UK Person: Look at those Oriental people over there.
US Person: You shouldn't call them Oriental. You should call them Asian.
UK Person: But they're Japanese. They aren't Indian. They're Oriental.
US Person: Rugs are Oriental. People are not.
UK Person: YOU are a rug. Learn more about the English language outside of your stupid country.
US Person: You shouldn't call them Oriental. You should call them Asian.
UK Person: But they're Japanese. They aren't Indian. They're Oriental.
US Person: Rugs are Oriental. People are not.
UK Person: YOU are a rug. Learn more about the English language outside of your stupid country.
by kijsjaan08 October 12, 2008
The honky suffers from Orientalism.
by Ding Dong January 1, 2004
Adjective meaning "east"
Comes from the Latin, "Oriens" = east.
Anything east of Europe is Oriental in the Euro-centric mind. That's why Oriental Rugs come from the Persia, not China.
Oriental is associated with European colonialism in China. Especially a British image of China as once great race, but declined and vulnerable to colonization and subjugation. Negro, Coon, and Mic share similar connotations.
Comes from the Latin, "Oriens" = east.
Anything east of Europe is Oriental in the Euro-centric mind. That's why Oriental Rugs come from the Persia, not China.
Oriental is associated with European colonialism in China. Especially a British image of China as once great race, but declined and vulnerable to colonization and subjugation. Negro, Coon, and Mic share similar connotations.
by slk December 2, 2004
Something or someone hailing from the Orient. Absolutely NOT an offensive term, only considered so by the uptight, ultrasensitive PC crowd in America. In Europe, the term is widely used without any connotations of insult. Using "Asian" for a people within the continent of Asia is selfish and self-serving to undermine other non-Oriental people.
by Roy R. August 2, 2006
o•ri•en•tal ôr″ē-ĕn′tl►
adj. Of or relating to the countries of the Orient or their peoples or cultures; eastern.
adj. Of or designating the biogeographic region that includes South Asia south of the Himalaya Mountains and Southeast Asia from southern China to Borneo.
adj. Of or relating to the Oriental Orthodox Church.
can also mean strange or previously unknown one proposed origin of the word. Antonym of Occident, the Western World.The preferered nomanclatur of older chinese men. Oriental.
adj. Of or relating to the countries of the Orient or their peoples or cultures; eastern.
adj. Of or designating the biogeographic region that includes South Asia south of the Himalaya Mountains and Southeast Asia from southern China to Borneo.
adj. Of or relating to the Oriental Orthodox Church.
can also mean strange or previously unknown one proposed origin of the word. Antonym of Occident, the Western World.The preferered nomanclatur of older chinese men. Oriental.
That oriental family was nice fuck PC cucks that don't know what the word means.
I love the movie about the train that runs through part of the orient region and there were 12 murderers.
I love the movie about the train that runs through part of the orient region and there were 12 murderers.
by Captain ACAb October 27, 2020
by m0ceN September 18, 2005
by Leslie February 28, 2005