Asian or Oriental?

[SunsetBengal]

(03-18-2017, 07:58 PM)Fan_in_Kettering Wrote: I think the term fell out of favor for Asians when the term "Occidental" stopped being used for westerners.  Here comes my Latin training, just when I thought I wouldn't use it outside of Church:  The "orientalis" is Latin for "rise" which is what the sun does in the east and "occidentalis" is the Latin prefix for "set" which is what the sun does in the west.  North and south in Latin are "borealis" and "australis" which are why the northern and southern lights are named that way.

Yet, Japan is still commonly referred to as the "Land of the rising sun.".