The "Orient" is a term that has been used in Western culture to refer to Asia, first to the middle-east and then later, especially, to three east Asian countries; China, Japan and Korea. To describe a person as oriental has since the early 1970s been considered somewhat impolite and politically incorrect in the United States (the term Asian is used widely instead), but the term Oriental doesn't carry any such connotations in the UK, where the word Asian commonly refers to people of Indian/Bangl… (More on Orient)