My main point was that not everyone uses the terms the same way that Americans do. For some inexplicable reason, “Oriental” seems to have become a politically-incorrect term in America, for people from the Orient.
In other news (and threads here), it's been mentioned that an Iranian bought the tickets, for the two traveling with stolen passports. Iran is located in Asia — yet the people were amongst the earliest "Aryans"; (a term that has fallen into disuse, for extreme political incorrectness).
My Vietnamese wife hates the term “Asian”. She says it’s what the Brits use to refer to middle easterners and muslims. She prefers Oriental.
I hold a degree from Occidental College—which is, incidentally, located on Fiji Hill. If it’s OK to say “Occidental,” it should be OK to say “Oriental.”