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- From: bsinger@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Bayla Singer)
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- Subject: Re: Asians
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- Date: 25 Jan 93 00:46:01 GMT
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- >That isn't surprising. I never heard of Indians being referred to as
- >Asians until the Ugandan expulsions, when the refugees were referred
- >to as 'Ugandan Asians'. Before that, Asians had pretty much always
- >meant people from Asia, ie Chinese.
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- >G
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- I had always thought asians=orientals, but did a mental double-take
- when I saw eastern-mediterranean peoples being referred to as "wily
- orientals" -- and after all, where do most "oriental rugs" originate?
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- --bayla (of wily oriental stock, way way back)
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