Asian or Oriental?

[SunsetBengal]

Thanks for all of the insight and information on the topic, but I'm still not convinced that using Asian to describe people from East or Southeastern Asia is proper. Why should only a portion of the Continent gain all of the use of the descriptor? Isn't that unfair to the billions of other Asian peoples?

Let's just all go back to what worked, Oriental. Orient refers to a specific part of Asia, so why not describe people from that region as Oriental?