Who is considered oriental

Clearly context is important. A funny thing I noticed is that my Caucasian colleagues, not my Asian colleagues, are most eager to remove Oriental from public discourse. These ideas helped to justify immigration exclusion, racial discrimination and violence, political disfranchisement and segregation.

A wave of anti-Oriental discrimination is not sweeping the country. The well-intentioned meddlers will create trouble for exactly the population they want to defend. My profession, Oriental medicine, is among those on the receiving end of the identity-politics outbreak.

A funny thing I noticed is that my Caucasian dare I say Occidental? Though the new federal legislation does not require us to act, it has increased pressure to toe the politically correct line. We have more important things to worry about.

Big pharma is busy patenting the active compounds in the herbal formulas that Orientals have been prescribing for millenniums. The World Health Organization and National Institutes of Health have long recognized the efficacy of acupuncture the mainstream of Oriental medicine in treating dozens of conditions. Supreme Court as the court hears oral arguments in a Census-related case on April 23, in Washington, D.

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