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There are regional variations (Western vs oriental) with their own phonetics (scales...) and grammars (rules of harmony, chord progressions).

Why would you want that when you have the forbidden city, the great wall and maybe countless oriental palaces??

According to the NPR piece it's been in use to signify oriental culture since at least 1930.

One of the keys to meditation (and to most of Oriental arts) is consistent practice.

Interestingly enough, the European pallate has also had a dterimental effect on some oriental and african cuisines athat were historically more spicy.

There are European White Jews (They are the Jews with elevated IQ, Ashkenazi), African Jews, Oriental Jews, and so on.

Just as the Mandarin Oriental doesn't compete with Motel 6, there will still be markets for a wide variety of cars at a wide variety of price points.

I've been around a lot of people who were raised bilingual in English and an oriental language and most of them complained that it was too hard.

I kind of agree, but in a merely technical way:) I like the oriental philosophical outlook, so basically, I would have to say, the world is simply what it is.

Every time I want to go get a fucking brew I gotta go down to the store with the two Oriental one-penny-counting motherfuckers; They make a nigger mad enough to cause a little ruckus.

I think it mostly has to do with Buddhism being seen by the majority of people, especially in the western world, as an oriental philosophy and less as a religion like Christianity or Islam.

Zilla even redecorated her own bedroom to make it look like an Oriental hotel room so that she could have Skype conversations with her family – at random times in the night, of course – without raising suspicion.

The term "Oriental" had fallen out of favor, and now we say "Asian" which to me is horribly imprecise.

> "The occidental mindset is heavily geared against advertising." As opposed to the oriental mindset?

The Shanleys of the world aren't complaining about 55-year-old men who still say "Oriental" (meaning no harm, and not holding racist views) but are generally professional and not very sexist (many are married and have daughters).

Because the idea of high and low context cultures is not a recent or controversial one, and high context cultures are not all "Oriental." In fact, they can be found in southern Europe (not to mention other non-Asian parts of the world) as well.

Oriental restaurants and takeaways that I've seen have nearly all been run by east Asians (I couldn't 100% say I always know from which country, but imagine largely inline with the cuisine they're serving) - in Oxford, London, Cambridge, Peterborough, Northampton..