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Young Black Haired Oriental Girl Shows Off Her Body On The Bed In The Hotel Room
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Current usage
• American English
"Oriental" is believed by some to be antiquated, pejorative, and disparaging due to its Eurocentric usage in the United States.
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 the 1970s. “With the 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,’” said Tchen. Oriental: Rugs or People?
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