• dogbert@lemmy.zipOP
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    9 days ago

    Oh boy, you’re gonna be pissed when you find out the continent Russia is located in…

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      8 days ago

      You say that like the modern polity/culture didn’t grow out of Europe and spread east or like minority ethnic groups in Asian Russia aren’t treated worse then Muscovites and ethnic Russians.

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          9 days ago

          Russia,[b] or the Russian Federation,[c] is a country in Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the largest country in the world, spanning eleven time zones and sharing land borders with fourteen countries.[d] With a population of over 140 million, Russia is the most populous country in Europe and the ninth-most populous country in the world.

          How can you be so confident, and yet so wrong about everything?

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          The term oriental is often used to describe objects and (in a derogative manner) people coming from the Orient/eastern Asia.

          The term Oriental may sound dated or even be seen as a pejorative, particularly when used as a noun.[20] John Kuo Wei Tchen, director of the Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program and Institute at New York University, said the basic criticism of the term began in the U.S. during a cultural shift in the 1970s. He has said: “With the U.S.A. anti-war movement in the '60s and early '70s, many Asian Americans identified the term ‘Oriental’ with a Western process of racializing Asians as forever opposite ‘others’”,[21] by making a distinction between “Western” and “Eastern” ancestral origins.

          Saying something is from the orient means its from Asia… Calling a person or a group of people like an army oriental is saying they are Asian.

          Read your own source… Or just use common sense?

          When have you ever heard of a European living in Europe being referred to as oriental?