Reply reply more replies swagganosaurus • reply reply tequilathehun • reply reply reality_break_ • reply reply more repliesmore repliesmore replies. When did it become a bad word? · oriental 一词带有文化上的意味,和 exotic 类似,比如可以说某一作品带有oriental风格。但究竟这个词还是一种含糊的表达,(比如我们自己都知道中国和印度艺术风格差异并不比中国和英国的风格差异小)因此严肃的艺术批评会慎用这个词。 I have since been told to use asian, which is fine, though a little less specific. I had no idea this happened. After doing a little research, in some languages and countries the orient. 西方在某段时期盛行“ 东方主义 ”,但其实这个oriental更像是exotic,异域的,奇特的(东对应着西,在西方看来异域的大多就是东方的了)。所以这个词带有一些殖民主义的色彩吧,毕竟是以西方为中心看待问题。 Yet, i called a person oriental, and the room went silent. 为啥oriental 有侮辱色彩? 5月20日,由国会众议员孟昭文提出的将带有侮辱色彩的“oriental” (东方人)一词从联邦法律中去除,用“asian americans” (亚裔)取… 显示全部 关注者 12 “orient” basically means “east of europe”. I have oriental flavored ramen noodles, oriental rugs, a lot of old literature uses the word orient. · oriental is less accurate because the orient includes those places you listed. The eastern terminal of the orient express was in istanbul.