Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/22

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Oriental Asians
From: "Richard F. Man" <richard@imagecraft.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 15:48:58 -0700
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At 05:35 PM 9/22/2003 -0400, bdcolen wrote:

>Marc J. Small wrote...
>
>I'll have to ask my Oriental friends about this.  Perhaps they would
>rather be called Far Eastians?
>
>---
>Perhaps that's just the point...That "the far East" is a "Western"
>perspective...To those in China, Japan, etc., WE are the Far Easterners,
>aren't we? All depends upon one's perspective....;-)
>
>And of course we could just as easily refer to Asia as the "far West,"
>couldn't we? Depends upon which way you're headed...

I suppose we Chinese shouldn't speak too loudly since all you European 
descended are called "Ghost People," but hey, that term came from WAY back 
when so may be it is acceptable eh? :-)


// richard <http://www.imagecraft.com> 
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