Ravi
Diamond Member
All Orientals are Asians. And you really can't always tell by looking at them where in Asia they hail from. So it seems safer to just call them Asians.So the answer turns out to be pretty simple. Not all Asians are Oriental. It'd be like calling Canadians Americans...or maybe Spaniards Mexicans. It's just technically not correct.
Ummm, that logic is backwards. Calling Asian/Orientals Asian is less technically correct than calling them Oriental. Since as you accurately point out, not all Asians are Oriental.