Report, if you have a problem with this page“ ... the very appearance of the word ‘‘oriental’’ as a serious geographic or cultural term triggers alarm bells for any American academic. The late Edward Said’s Orientalism argued that the word ‘‘oriental’’ is a fundamentally pejorative term for certain parts of the non-Western world, not only indicating that they are inferior but also justifying Western colonization or domination of them. ”
Peter A. Lorge
From : The Asian Military Revolution: From Gunpowder to the Bomb
