Mark Thorson wrote:

> Corey Richardson wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:51:23 -0700 (PDT), aem >
>>wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Just curious....is "Oriental" still widely used in the U.K., rather
>>>than "asian"? Does it still connote something exotic? -aem
>>
>>AFAIC, "Oriental" means Chinese/Japanese and "Asian" is
>>Indian/Pakistani.
>
>
> In the UK, "Europe" begins on the other side
> of the English channel. But in the US,
> we consider the UK to be part of Europe.
> So we aren't likely to look to them for
> geography lessons.

But what will we become if we join the USA? As most over here hope happens.

Dave